No doubt that the 2024 Election was stolen, by more than algorithms, but what can we do about a fait acompli? Can we have a do over and depose the grifter in chief? Does this knowledge help us in the next elections? How?
The fascists have the guns and the courts.
A federal judge yesterday ruled that the federal government does not have to return the 2020 election ballots from Georgia’s Fulton County that were seized by the FBI from a warehouse near Atlanta. Kate Brumback reports for AP News.
The 5th in Louisiana and 8th in Missouri always rule in favor of Trump
Trump's nominated judges on appellate courts have been highly supportive, voting in his favor in 97% of administrative stays, 88% of stays pending appeal, and 100% of final rulings.Specific Rulings: In a 2-1 decision in December 2025, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Trump administration regarding the firing of independent agency heads, marking a significant victory.Setbacks: Conversely, the same court ruled unanimously in February 2024 that Trump did not have broad immunity from federal prosecution, a major legal setback
Appellate courts, including the 11th Circuit, ruled in favor of Donald Trump's administration approximately 51% of the time in 2025, with success rates rising to 92% when his appointees were on the panel. Judges appointed by Trump to appellate courts voted in his favor 133 times and against him only 12 times in 2025.
And then there is SCOTUS I don't intend to be negative or defeatist, but I do need to see a plan, something in reality, not pie in the sky.
Capital has been allowed to concentrate in so few hands that a van-load of ultra-billionaires can grab control of all the major methods of communication and poison democracy by enticing voters to accept a line of candidates (and their line of bullshit) which is ultimately self-defeating for us and self-serving for the billionaires.
Democracy is the only vehicle that can serve our needs, but it is so very fragile. It will always be attacked by those who think they are our betters, so we will always have to defend it.
We need a new concept, The Broligarchy aren't capitalists. They aren't mustering and using capital to control the market. The market is limited to social media, and AI, actually it is limited to algorithms. Capitalism is so 19th Century.
This wildfire of perversity is like a tsunami consuming all in its path. When I heard a very strange item the other day about young republican married males drugging their wives and raping them it truly felt that WHITE MALE PERVERSITY reigns supreme. Where are all you non republican males - haven't heard any righteous indignation and push back on this?
For several years now what I hear, but mostly thankfully can't remember, is we "should" do this, the Dems need a plan,...when will the Dems start..., why can't we organize ... etc - ALL real questions aimed at the nebulus somewhere in the distance future of voting our side back in and where all our dreams will come true. What about the here and now?
WHY HASN'T THIS HAPPENED? Why is there NO plan of action? Why is the average Joe and Josephine left dangling on their own while all of the article above is illuminating the constant pounding and grinding of us into the ground with social media followed by a no recourse judicial body, or any governing body of any kind.
This is an excellent post that outlines what is a serious problem. Myself and others have thought that the 2024 election was stolen but not through this method. Thanks for exposing what happened. Everyone has to call their representative and ask for the action that you have suggested. I will.
All the politicians up for primary seem to be focusing on is the “billionaire tax” or immigration. While these issues are important to all of us, we must include the issue of getting rid of Citizens United as an aftermath of Buckley v. Valeo that got us into this boat and allow politics to be controlled by billionaires.
While I hate using the “c” word, this was in fact a conspiracy by the the super rich who are pouring money to politicians and judges to influence and control their performance and rulings while syphoning our hard earned tax money away from the benefit of the people. Unfortunately, I don’t know if this situation can be corrected, but since the American public are so influenced by the result of campaign “contributions” we have to protect ourselves from this dishonest and hopefully, someday, illegal activity.
We are watching all of our world clout, public wealth, and rights flushed down the preverbal toilet that leads to the 05% of the population, our billionaires and trillionaires, who are only concerned with keeping and hoarding their wealth.
I don't doubt the veracity of this report, Thom, but without the gift to the GOP of Biden's dotage and his pathological need to deny and obscure it because of his selfish refusal to admit his inadequacy for the job, we would have had a robust primary that could have overwhelmed the digital stacked deck.
This information and other evidence of election fraud in swing states has been out there for a several months. Funny that legacy media hasn’t covered it.
I find today's pattern of social media dominating how adolescents and young adults expose themselves to politics and world events to be unsettling. The content is often so emotional that their brains likely switch off whatever critical reasoning they might normally engage. There is also a bias in who they choose to "follow," nearly always, somebody who shares their views. For example, a loyal Tesla driver who thinks Elon Musk is a genius is likely to consume information guided by the notion that: Well, if Musk said it on X, it must be true.
Why do billionaires buy media conglomerates like Twitter, TikTok, and even newspapers like WAPO? That is a rhetorical question, given Citizens United and the lack of antitrust enforcement we see today. Billionaires understand that by tweaking the media, they can garner social and political support for their own money-making schemes. Of course, some do it just for the power high they get from trying to tell people what and how to think.
In some cases, it probably is, but I think that chasing status is a vain quest. The American myth is that Money buys happiness, and the more money you have, the happier you will be. In fact, having too much or too little money usually brings misery. Billionaires, and I know too many, seem like dogs chasing their tails in a circle. Do you really think most TV billionaires are happy with their money and power? Heck no. Most are on their 3rd+wife, have more houses than they can use, and think that their next takeover will finally make them feel both powerful and contented - only it rarely does.
The only people in US Capitalism who are happy are those who I call the "Havenufs." People who have enough of everything: nice house, nice car, no debts, travel now and then, have lots of friends, offspring, and spouses who love them, and most importantly, they can look back on a life full of positive legacies for the younger generations.
In contrast, the billionaires, the "Have2muches," have none of that. Sure, they have mansions, but they had interior decorators furnish them, with exotic paintings and stuff, and they have employees who maintain their other toys. They were too busy amassing wealth for such trappings and trivia.
You cannot walk 1 step in my house without my being able to share a story about that picture on the wall, that coffee table, statue, the rug you are standing on, or the chair you are sitting on. They all come with a story that serves as a chapter in my and my spouse's life.
The problem in America is that most people are the "Wannahavemores." Thom's post today explains how they got and stay that way. The Wannahavemores work for money so they can spend it on stuff they have been led (influenced) to believe will make them happy. Then they see an ad on the internet and realize - oops! I "need" one of those. It is not until age 60 that they realize that they have not invested in their life, aside from having some kids maybe, and they have nothing invested for their future after their worklife ends. Their American dream is hoping that they can pay off their refinanced mortgage by age 75.
It is too bad that the American Dream is not just to Havenuf; enough love, friends, achievements, and happiness to qualify for life in Happilyeverafter - retirement.
I totally agree Tom. Myself I am a haveenuf, . No mortgage, no debts, all I have to pay is insurance, taxes, utilities and food, good health, despite diabetes and in remission from lung cancer. going on 9 years now. Own 5 acres, 2 1/2 of which I mow, am going to mow again today, grass growing like weeds in this weather, but I enjoy mowing, and cleaning up. Just turned 87, BP yesterday 125/75,
What more could I ask for? And unlike Zuckerberg, Musk, Sachs, Jamie Dimon,etc I am not living in fear of having the ladder knocked out from under me.
Trump has to be paranoid, sees threats around him, all of the time, and he isn't wrong. Except for about 35% of the population, the world holds him in disdain, and terrifyingly laughs at him. And that 35%, well their "love" is conditional, so long as he enables them to own the libs.
You know he can't sleep, up at 2 am texting on the toilet.
By the way, I set my goal for life when I was 17, and that was to retire young, live a life on my terms, and be comfortable and happy . I achieved that goal at age 55, by making good choices., made some bad ones too, bu put them behind me as lessons.learned.
I said 55, because that is when I sobered up and put alcohol in the rear view mirror. When you don't waste your money on addictions, you suddenly find yourself with so much unspent income,that you are saving faster than you can spend
I attribute having enuf to pursuing a vocation as opposed to preparing for a job or career. The former is aspirational, whereas the latter is ambitious. The latter, by definition, pursues wealth and power as they fight their way up their career ladders. Striving for dominance distracts one from doing the best they can. Ironically, being vocational meant not needing to take credit for my achievements as an organizational psychologist; my clients could take the credit because they all were on ladders. That also gave me a whoyagonnacall reputation in DC among admirals, generals, agency heads, and even presidents. My goal was not early retirement, just ensuring that I landed in Happilyeverafter. To me, my Navy rank of Captain was just a paygrade. When Clinton nominated me for admiral, I retired the next day and joined NIH to continue another 12 years of creative mischief. Surely he thought he was doing me a favor.
Working in the tall trees of DC was fulfilling because my work caused changes that impacted thousands, even the entire country, now and then. Thus, I built quite a pile of legacies to be proud of domestically and internationally (I always had projects in Asia and Europe). Although we planned for retirement at 68, so I could see a huge project to the end, at 65, eldercare on 2 continents made work impossible. Having done our research, we knew exactly where to retire - across the street from the beach in Central FL. I never paid attention to money except to ensure excess coin was invested. I was a bit surprised that my retirement income was higher than I expected, plus being retired military, our healthcare is free - quite a savings. I do have a lawn service and poolboy (HOA requirement).
A friend of mine who helped plan, Operation Eagle Claw, was offered a command position that would had led to promotion to General. he turned it down and retired.Then got a job as the accounting officer for a federal reserve district bank, eventually became the VP, but taught finance and management, in a university. in his spare time. Two weeks my junior, he passed last October
I retired at age 44, I had enough of the politics and ass kissing required. I am an anomaly, a career in spec ops, yet at heart I was still the Beat I was when I was at 18,, when I and Curtis from Oakland, would sit at a checkerboard table in Diogenes Lantern, playing chess and listening to poetry, and gathering dust in our navel.
I ran into a guy I knew in Vietnam, he was an E-4, when I was an E-3, he was an E-7 then, I was an E-5. he saw me in my beret and slinging an M-16 and fell over backwards/ He thought I would be the last person in the world to re enlist, much less be in special ops.
I was still the same person on the inside, just the outside had changed.
At age 19, I decided I wanted to be a psychologist and help people cope with their emotional problems. Then later that same year, I opened my mailbox and lost control of my life. The letter started "Greetings..." By enlisting in the Naval Reserve, and passing the aptitude test for flight school, I was able to finish my BA. Upon graduation, I had to complete Marine OCS and then flight school. A bit more than halfway thru flight school, they ran out of instructors, and I was sent to Vietnamese language school and 3 combat & survival schools before joining life on the Saigon River. Once my tour ended, I was assigned a second combat tour as DESRON 1 Navigator on a DDG arriving on the VN coast. My 4th year, back stateside, I was also assigned Asst. Chief Engineer.
Upon release from "obligated service," I got my doctorate as an organizational psychologist. I stayed in the reserves for car payments while a starving grad student. During my 3rd post-doc year on the UT med school faculty, the Navy Surgeon General invited me back in uniform. Though I only planned to stay active for 3 years, to get some high-profile journal articles in print, my 3rd year came and went as I started doing career development research for the SG, improving hospital performance. Then, at the end of my 5th active year, I was short-toured and transferred to the Pentagon to work for the Chief of Naval Personnel overseeing all his research and studies. ADM Boorda was the mentor who finally woked me up that my value to OPNAV was that my 15 years in the line enabled me to understand the admirals' diverse worlds and help them better see how their civilian researchers' results informed their decision-making.
Ah... You must be from Pennsylvania where a massive ruse of media "propaganda" propelled Lurch Fetterman. Ashamed of fiscally-supporting his campaign and voting for him, I could kick myself in the behind if I were double-jointed. On the other hand, the Republican Mehmet Oz?
The GOP has been rigging elections for decades, this is now much worse.
Exposing algorithms alone will not fix this, Trump is also cancelling mail in ballots, Musk has said out loud that hacking voting machines is easy. Minorities are dropped from the voting list, millions of (democratic) ballots were challenged (not counted) etc. etc.
Hillary and Harris both had many more votes than Trump but we have the most corrupt voting system in the western word. The Dems are weak, they don't do recounts. The Supreme Court is corrupt and will side with the GOP. Trump may create more chaos and declare "Martial law".
I have lost hope, every day is getting worse and we have no strong democratic leadership, just a handful of brave liberals and good old Bernie. What about all the grifting, Trump is looting the treasury but it seems to be no big deal. China is quietly dumping our bonds, they can easily bankrupt us since they are holding most of our almost 40 trillion dollar debt.
Thom, Please look at the voting analysis done by This Will Hold on Substack. They have understood this as a theft through technology from the beginning. And the latest overview piece today is a don’t miss.
I have read elsewhere on substack that mysterious new counties suddenly popped up in the voting records within an hour of the polls closing with just the number of votes needed to tip trump into the majority on heavy swing states. I don't have the resources to track this down or verify these assertions , but the information provided at the time sher looked convincing.
Unrelated note to Tom about THE WIZARD OF OZ. The opening of the movie, in Kansas, was shot in black and white. When the house arrives in Oz and Dorothy opens the door, she steps into Technicolor Oz. It was one of the things the movie was famous for.
No doubt that the 2024 Election was stolen, by more than algorithms, but what can we do about a fait acompli? Can we have a do over and depose the grifter in chief? Does this knowledge help us in the next elections? How?
The fascists have the guns and the courts.
A federal judge yesterday ruled that the federal government does not have to return the 2020 election ballots from Georgia’s Fulton County that were seized by the FBI from a warehouse near Atlanta. Kate Brumback reports for AP News.
The 5th in Louisiana and 8th in Missouri always rule in favor of Trump
Trump's nominated judges on appellate courts have been highly supportive, voting in his favor in 97% of administrative stays, 88% of stays pending appeal, and 100% of final rulings.Specific Rulings: In a 2-1 decision in December 2025, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Trump administration regarding the firing of independent agency heads, marking a significant victory.Setbacks: Conversely, the same court ruled unanimously in February 2024 that Trump did not have broad immunity from federal prosecution, a major legal setback
Appellate courts, including the 11th Circuit, ruled in favor of Donald Trump's administration approximately 51% of the time in 2025, with success rates rising to 92% when his appointees were on the panel. Judges appointed by Trump to appellate courts voted in his favor 133 times and against him only 12 times in 2025.
And then there is SCOTUS I don't intend to be negative or defeatist, but I do need to see a plan, something in reality, not pie in the sky.
Capital has been allowed to concentrate in so few hands that a van-load of ultra-billionaires can grab control of all the major methods of communication and poison democracy by enticing voters to accept a line of candidates (and their line of bullshit) which is ultimately self-defeating for us and self-serving for the billionaires.
Democracy is the only vehicle that can serve our needs, but it is so very fragile. It will always be attacked by those who think they are our betters, so we will always have to defend it.
We need a new concept, The Broligarchy aren't capitalists. They aren't mustering and using capital to control the market. The market is limited to social media, and AI, actually it is limited to algorithms. Capitalism is so 19th Century.
This wildfire of perversity is like a tsunami consuming all in its path. When I heard a very strange item the other day about young republican married males drugging their wives and raping them it truly felt that WHITE MALE PERVERSITY reigns supreme. Where are all you non republican males - haven't heard any righteous indignation and push back on this?
For several years now what I hear, but mostly thankfully can't remember, is we "should" do this, the Dems need a plan,...when will the Dems start..., why can't we organize ... etc - ALL real questions aimed at the nebulus somewhere in the distance future of voting our side back in and where all our dreams will come true. What about the here and now?
WHY HASN'T THIS HAPPENED? Why is there NO plan of action? Why is the average Joe and Josephine left dangling on their own while all of the article above is illuminating the constant pounding and grinding of us into the ground with social media followed by a no recourse judicial body, or any governing body of any kind.
Inquiring minds want to know.
Very good questions. It's past time to get the answers and pursue solutions before the midterms.
Ken Martin won't release the 2024 autopsy report. That is where self correction starts.
The DNC has a lot to fear.
This is an excellent post that outlines what is a serious problem. Myself and others have thought that the 2024 election was stolen but not through this method. Thanks for exposing what happened. Everyone has to call their representative and ask for the action that you have suggested. I will.
This Will Hold on Substack has seen it was stolen through the machines almost immediately… highly recommend their work.
Yep Stolen, but the Democrats didn't fight, they just rolled over. This is leadership?
All the politicians up for primary seem to be focusing on is the “billionaire tax” or immigration. While these issues are important to all of us, we must include the issue of getting rid of Citizens United as an aftermath of Buckley v. Valeo that got us into this boat and allow politics to be controlled by billionaires.
While I hate using the “c” word, this was in fact a conspiracy by the the super rich who are pouring money to politicians and judges to influence and control their performance and rulings while syphoning our hard earned tax money away from the benefit of the people. Unfortunately, I don’t know if this situation can be corrected, but since the American public are so influenced by the result of campaign “contributions” we have to protect ourselves from this dishonest and hopefully, someday, illegal activity.
We are watching all of our world clout, public wealth, and rights flushed down the preverbal toilet that leads to the 05% of the population, our billionaires and trillionaires, who are only concerned with keeping and hoarding their wealth.
I don't doubt the veracity of this report, Thom, but without the gift to the GOP of Biden's dotage and his pathological need to deny and obscure it because of his selfish refusal to admit his inadequacy for the job, we would have had a robust primary that could have overwhelmed the digital stacked deck.
Agreed. IMO, Jill was behind this unwillingness to step down. Men aren't the only ones with outsized egos. I'm watching the Devile Wears Prada.
This information and other evidence of election fraud in swing states has been out there for a several months. Funny that legacy media hasn’t covered it.
That is because the Democratic party has rolled over, Kamala couldn't wait to concede, 4 PM on Nov 6th, while the votes were still being counted.
She should have done what Trump did and fight to the end. I can't support cowards.
This is incredibly important to know -- and we must act by taking the effort to share this and to contact legislators.
I find today's pattern of social media dominating how adolescents and young adults expose themselves to politics and world events to be unsettling. The content is often so emotional that their brains likely switch off whatever critical reasoning they might normally engage. There is also a bias in who they choose to "follow," nearly always, somebody who shares their views. For example, a loyal Tesla driver who thinks Elon Musk is a genius is likely to consume information guided by the notion that: Well, if Musk said it on X, it must be true.
Why do billionaires buy media conglomerates like Twitter, TikTok, and even newspapers like WAPO? That is a rhetorical question, given Citizens United and the lack of antitrust enforcement we see today. Billionaires understand that by tweaking the media, they can garner social and political support for their own money-making schemes. Of course, some do it just for the power high they get from trying to tell people what and how to think.
The goal is power. Money to get power, power to keep the money, but it is all about power, control and social status.
In some cases, it probably is, but I think that chasing status is a vain quest. The American myth is that Money buys happiness, and the more money you have, the happier you will be. In fact, having too much or too little money usually brings misery. Billionaires, and I know too many, seem like dogs chasing their tails in a circle. Do you really think most TV billionaires are happy with their money and power? Heck no. Most are on their 3rd+wife, have more houses than they can use, and think that their next takeover will finally make them feel both powerful and contented - only it rarely does.
The only people in US Capitalism who are happy are those who I call the "Havenufs." People who have enough of everything: nice house, nice car, no debts, travel now and then, have lots of friends, offspring, and spouses who love them, and most importantly, they can look back on a life full of positive legacies for the younger generations.
In contrast, the billionaires, the "Have2muches," have none of that. Sure, they have mansions, but they had interior decorators furnish them, with exotic paintings and stuff, and they have employees who maintain their other toys. They were too busy amassing wealth for such trappings and trivia.
You cannot walk 1 step in my house without my being able to share a story about that picture on the wall, that coffee table, statue, the rug you are standing on, or the chair you are sitting on. They all come with a story that serves as a chapter in my and my spouse's life.
The problem in America is that most people are the "Wannahavemores." Thom's post today explains how they got and stay that way. The Wannahavemores work for money so they can spend it on stuff they have been led (influenced) to believe will make them happy. Then they see an ad on the internet and realize - oops! I "need" one of those. It is not until age 60 that they realize that they have not invested in their life, aside from having some kids maybe, and they have nothing invested for their future after their worklife ends. Their American dream is hoping that they can pay off their refinanced mortgage by age 75.
It is too bad that the American Dream is not just to Havenuf; enough love, friends, achievements, and happiness to qualify for life in Happilyeverafter - retirement.
I totally agree Tom. Myself I am a haveenuf, . No mortgage, no debts, all I have to pay is insurance, taxes, utilities and food, good health, despite diabetes and in remission from lung cancer. going on 9 years now. Own 5 acres, 2 1/2 of which I mow, am going to mow again today, grass growing like weeds in this weather, but I enjoy mowing, and cleaning up. Just turned 87, BP yesterday 125/75,
What more could I ask for? And unlike Zuckerberg, Musk, Sachs, Jamie Dimon,etc I am not living in fear of having the ladder knocked out from under me.
Trump has to be paranoid, sees threats around him, all of the time, and he isn't wrong. Except for about 35% of the population, the world holds him in disdain, and terrifyingly laughs at him. And that 35%, well their "love" is conditional, so long as he enables them to own the libs.
You know he can't sleep, up at 2 am texting on the toilet.
By the way, I set my goal for life when I was 17, and that was to retire young, live a life on my terms, and be comfortable and happy . I achieved that goal at age 55, by making good choices., made some bad ones too, bu put them behind me as lessons.learned.
I said 55, because that is when I sobered up and put alcohol in the rear view mirror. When you don't waste your money on addictions, you suddenly find yourself with so much unspent income,that you are saving faster than you can spend
I attribute having enuf to pursuing a vocation as opposed to preparing for a job or career. The former is aspirational, whereas the latter is ambitious. The latter, by definition, pursues wealth and power as they fight their way up their career ladders. Striving for dominance distracts one from doing the best they can. Ironically, being vocational meant not needing to take credit for my achievements as an organizational psychologist; my clients could take the credit because they all were on ladders. That also gave me a whoyagonnacall reputation in DC among admirals, generals, agency heads, and even presidents. My goal was not early retirement, just ensuring that I landed in Happilyeverafter. To me, my Navy rank of Captain was just a paygrade. When Clinton nominated me for admiral, I retired the next day and joined NIH to continue another 12 years of creative mischief. Surely he thought he was doing me a favor.
Working in the tall trees of DC was fulfilling because my work caused changes that impacted thousands, even the entire country, now and then. Thus, I built quite a pile of legacies to be proud of domestically and internationally (I always had projects in Asia and Europe). Although we planned for retirement at 68, so I could see a huge project to the end, at 65, eldercare on 2 continents made work impossible. Having done our research, we knew exactly where to retire - across the street from the beach in Central FL. I never paid attention to money except to ensure excess coin was invested. I was a bit surprised that my retirement income was higher than I expected, plus being retired military, our healthcare is free - quite a savings. I do have a lawn service and poolboy (HOA requirement).
A friend of mine who helped plan, Operation Eagle Claw, was offered a command position that would had led to promotion to General. he turned it down and retired.Then got a job as the accounting officer for a federal reserve district bank, eventually became the VP, but taught finance and management, in a university. in his spare time. Two weeks my junior, he passed last October
I retired at age 44, I had enough of the politics and ass kissing required. I am an anomaly, a career in spec ops, yet at heart I was still the Beat I was when I was at 18,, when I and Curtis from Oakland, would sit at a checkerboard table in Diogenes Lantern, playing chess and listening to poetry, and gathering dust in our navel.
I ran into a guy I knew in Vietnam, he was an E-4, when I was an E-3, he was an E-7 then, I was an E-5. he saw me in my beret and slinging an M-16 and fell over backwards/ He thought I would be the last person in the world to re enlist, much less be in special ops.
I was still the same person on the inside, just the outside had changed.
At age 19, I decided I wanted to be a psychologist and help people cope with their emotional problems. Then later that same year, I opened my mailbox and lost control of my life. The letter started "Greetings..." By enlisting in the Naval Reserve, and passing the aptitude test for flight school, I was able to finish my BA. Upon graduation, I had to complete Marine OCS and then flight school. A bit more than halfway thru flight school, they ran out of instructors, and I was sent to Vietnamese language school and 3 combat & survival schools before joining life on the Saigon River. Once my tour ended, I was assigned a second combat tour as DESRON 1 Navigator on a DDG arriving on the VN coast. My 4th year, back stateside, I was also assigned Asst. Chief Engineer.
Upon release from "obligated service," I got my doctorate as an organizational psychologist. I stayed in the reserves for car payments while a starving grad student. During my 3rd post-doc year on the UT med school faculty, the Navy Surgeon General invited me back in uniform. Though I only planned to stay active for 3 years, to get some high-profile journal articles in print, my 3rd year came and went as I started doing career development research for the SG, improving hospital performance. Then, at the end of my 5th active year, I was short-toured and transferred to the Pentagon to work for the Chief of Naval Personnel overseeing all his research and studies. ADM Boorda was the mentor who finally woked me up that my value to OPNAV was that my 15 years in the line enabled me to understand the admirals' diverse worlds and help them better see how their civilian researchers' results informed their decision-making.
Unfortunately, my two Republican Senators are both beneficiaries of social media and likely are in office because of them.
Ah... You must be from Pennsylvania where a massive ruse of media "propaganda" propelled Lurch Fetterman. Ashamed of fiscally-supporting his campaign and voting for him, I could kick myself in the behind if I were double-jointed. On the other hand, the Republican Mehmet Oz?
The GOP has been rigging elections for decades, this is now much worse.
Exposing algorithms alone will not fix this, Trump is also cancelling mail in ballots, Musk has said out loud that hacking voting machines is easy. Minorities are dropped from the voting list, millions of (democratic) ballots were challenged (not counted) etc. etc.
Hillary and Harris both had many more votes than Trump but we have the most corrupt voting system in the western word. The Dems are weak, they don't do recounts. The Supreme Court is corrupt and will side with the GOP. Trump may create more chaos and declare "Martial law".
I have lost hope, every day is getting worse and we have no strong democratic leadership, just a handful of brave liberals and good old Bernie. What about all the grifting, Trump is looting the treasury but it seems to be no big deal. China is quietly dumping our bonds, they can easily bankrupt us since they are holding most of our almost 40 trillion dollar debt.
Thom, Please look at the voting analysis done by This Will Hold on Substack. They have understood this as a theft through technology from the beginning. And the latest overview piece today is a don’t miss.
I have read elsewhere on substack that mysterious new counties suddenly popped up in the voting records within an hour of the polls closing with just the number of votes needed to tip trump into the majority on heavy swing states. I don't have the resources to track this down or verify these assertions , but the information provided at the time sher looked convincing.
I dug up the link and a more current post on the details. https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/merrick-garland-and-the-octopus?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5vogaw
2016 and 2024 were both “rigged” for Tempertantrump to win.
Towards an algorithmic state of clear.
The Feds must appoint Special Masters to eliminate these digital thumbs on OUR democracy's scale.
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If software = rigged for Rs
unf**k software
else
store kakistocracy
Kiss democracy goodbye
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Theil, Ellison, Yarvin, Musk, Zuck et al?
Make them poor.
#VOTE
Unrelated note to Tom about THE WIZARD OF OZ. The opening of the movie, in Kansas, was shot in black and white. When the house arrives in Oz and Dorothy opens the door, she steps into Technicolor Oz. It was one of the things the movie was famous for.