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‘2000 Mules’: Election Drop Boxes, ‘Geofencing,’ and ‘The Big Lie’
“We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” Joe Biden
Those were the exact words from a grainy clip of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden that opens a new movie by conservative author, pundit, and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, ‘“2000 Mules.” It was seen as just another gaffe by a candidate with a long history of malapropisms.
Salem Media Group and True the Vote (TTV) produced the movie. D’Souza relies on research from TTV’s President, Catherine Englebrecht, and TTV board member Gregg Phillips, a former state health official in Texas and Mississippi. Phillips also is a data analyst and the founder of several technology-related firms. He claims in the movie to have been “in and around” election integrity and analysis for 40 years.
Phillips is no stranger to controversy. He was the source of claims made by President Trump in 2017, never confirmed, that 3 million illegal votes were cast in the 2016 election. Mainstream media has worked overtime to discredit him and TTV, including a major investor’s claim that he was duped and other unsubstantiated claims. Yet, Phillips and TTV persist.
D’Souza, who launched a podcast in 2021 on the Salem platform, sets the stage with clips from three Republicans – former Attorney General Bill Barr (“Fraud did not play a role in the outcome of the election”), US Sen. Mike Rounds (“the election was fair”), and of course, US Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY). He touches on “J6” at the US Capitol, claiming it “wasn’t an insurrection. It was a primal scream. They wanted their elected leaders to adjudicate the claims of election fraud.”
“We can’t ‘move on’ until we know the truth,” D’Souza continues. “Is it a ‘big lie?’ It is a lie at all?”
D’Souza also relies on a panel of Salem radio talk show and podcast hosts, including Dennis Prager, Eric Metaxas, Larry Elder, Charlie Kirk, and former Trump administration official Dr. Sebastian Gorka. Most express reservations about election fraud claims in the first interviews.
By the end of the movie, they’re aghast. You may be, too. One of the retorts we often hear concerning claims of vote fraud is the phrase “without evidence.” Except that D’Souza, Englebrecht, and Phillips provide actual official footage of crimes committed by “mules” in the form of drop-box stuffing of ballots, often during the dark of night. Most states, including Pennsylvania – a particular focus of illegal election activity in the movie – prohibit voters from casting more than one ballot, their own, at drop boxes.
Drop boxes – many of them privately funded via $400 million from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg through the left-wing Center for Tech and Civic Life – were a unique feature of the pandemic-scarred 2020 election. Most were placed in Democratic-leaning counties and jurisdictions.
Not if there are no requirements for solid ID verification, for starters. Plus keeping clean registration lists, etc.
No, there are ways of encrypting it.
Not that secret ballots mean a heck of a lot when your party affiliation is public knowledge.
I’m at 4.75 to 4.98 (nothing is certain).
But I don’t watch Trump anymore because it seems so — well, I don’t know what he’s up to. Running for POTUS again? But the one cogent right-wing criticism I’ve heard of Trump this past year is that he goes around talking about the Stolen Election, with nothing new to say, just harping on his loss, and he, and we all, need to move on.
On the other hand, some members (@henryracette in particular) say to: Get angry. Talk to people. Get the word out. And support the Republican party. Get involved in local elections. Which is good and right as far as it goes. And which I characterize as Vote Harder. But what I foresee is that if the 2020 election was “fixed” then no amount of voting will ever make a difference, at least in the beginning, no difference for swing members for the House and Senate, and for the presidency.
My point is that if indeed Trump is harping on the past, on the stolen 2020 election, which can’t be corrected now, he’s still harping on the one thing that makes a difference, without which our constitutional republican form of government can’t stand, and is potentially an existential threat to any form of self-governance.
Now, with the presentation of 2000 Mules, the emphasis is rightly on this most important subject. And it just so happens to be what Trump has been saying, and what people have been saying is Trump’s narcissistic sour grapes whining.
Trump’s right. If the election was stolen, every election can be stolen; and every important election will be stolen if we can’t right this.
Not sure but it was also released in theaters across the country last week. IMDB lists movies that showed in only one theater and made less than $100 in the top 25. You know for darn sure 2000 Mules cleared more than $5,ooo in theater.
3 is demonstrated.
4 is probable.
5 is disturbingly plausible.
1.4 million illegally cast Biden votes in PA, and about 54k illegally counted in WI–according to the courts.
5
I am tired of being proven wrong
In an interview with Steve Bannon, Engelbrecht said that they purchased it on the open market. Cell phone companies sell the data on a massive scale. TTV said that they bought it from brokers.
Rationally, about 4.5. Emotionally, about 8.
The data comes from aggregators, who get the position, phone id, and timestamps from application authors. You should assume that any app you installed for free is reporting lots of data on you, whenever it connects to a network.
Hey! Am I still a crazy conspiracy theorist now?
Watched it tonight, very compelling. Have a look and spread the word. The more this is reviewed, backchecked and verified by qualified people, the better.
“Conspiracy theory” has become synonymous with “spoiler alert”.
Massive collaboration, you say?
Republicans have a long history of sucking at collaboration. Examples include the RINOs and the Never Trumpers. The Republicans in congress almost never vote together. Recall how John Effing McCain cast the deciding vote to save Obamacare just to spite President Trump. In the 2016 US Senate election in California, it was jungle primary, where the top two go on to the general election regardless of party. And what did the Republicans do? Of course they split the vote between 3 (main) candidates, so no Republican made it to the general, and that’s how you got Senator Kamala.
The Democrats have become very proficient at collaboration. The Democrats in congress always vote together, in lock step, every time. Why? Because it multiplies their political power. By a lot. And when it’s time to push a lie by acting absolutely insane, like during the Kavanaugh hearings, or during the bogus impeachments, they follow the script exactly. When they speak on any topic, they follow the talking points exactly.
The Antifa and BLM riots during the summer of 2020 were also well orchestrated; the chosen cities, the rioters, transportation, the talking points, but also the mayors and the police departments being order not to arrest anybody. All highly coordinated.
And there was a lot of collaboration with the deep state for the Hunter Biden Laptop from Hell, and the Steele Dossier, the wiretapping, and much more.
So what may seem like “massive collaboration” to conservatives, is like Wednesday to the dems.
Where to get the mules? As the film noted, they have id matches for Antifa and BLM rioters.
The next part of that sentence is about money. The Dems spent zero on rallies, and roughly zero on ads. So there’s plenty of money available without even considering Zuckerberg or Soros.
(Actually there’s probably a lot more than that. Wikipedia usually provides the cost of US presidential elections. They report $2 billion for 2012, they break it down in more detail to $1.27 billion for 2016, though that might not be correct, and they give up for 2020, instead referencing an Open Secrets report of $14 billion. Who knows?)
So my point is that this level 5 completely falls into the category of “regular stuff”.
Because Newsmax, Foxnews, the GOP and NeverTrumpers don’t care about America or truth or us.
Nah, you were just early.
Funny how that works.
You see / say something that you think is most likely true but the zeitgeist says is not and you get labeled a Conspiracy Theorist. Item you thought was true comes out as true and the zeitgeist sorts of forgets about it, but you get to keep the Conspiracy Theorist label. You would think getting it right would erase the label but it does not. You do it a couple of times and you become Crazy Conspiracy Theorist. Do it too much and you are a cynic.
I would like to hear more about the Virginia experience. Maybe you could do a post on that.
For those interested in learning more about geofencing and the accuracy of its data – which AP “factcheckers” and others are challenging concerning D’Souza’s film – check out this 2018 New York Times story. It takes an in-depth and highly accurate (for a change) look at the technology, its uses, and its implications.
Today’s Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch provides another real-life example of how it is used to help solve crimes. The movie provided one as well.
So much this. It’s the only thing keeping me sane. Dollars to donuts, the initial reaction is going to be 100% wrong.
Very good questions. It has been reported that the data is going to be made available for outside analysys sometime in the very near future. Let’s hope that it is.
3 for me
This is why they are so angry at Sinema and Manchin. They’re not abiding by the leadership’s dictates. I expect Sinema to be primaried from the left in 2024, which will be very entertaining to watch.
Surely the data license would not allow them to share that. They did make reports and summaries available to FBI and GBI that ignored the findings.
Always.
Even more scary now you have fired guns!
They can sometimes do accurate reporting if they don’t (yet) see how it might hurt them politically.
Yup. They are too lazy and inept and disinterested to do their job.
Yes. Sinema and Manchin are the exception that proves the rule. Yeah, I hate that phrase too.
But the point is that things have become so crazy and extreme that two democrat senators have finally stood up. And that hasn’t happened in a long time.
“Lazy and inept” is the business model of modern corporate media.
I sure don’t remember McCain standing up to the Democrats like that.