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The 2020 Election – Time Mag Story and the Quest for Power
Like many, I read the Time Magazine story, ” The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election.” by Molly Ball, and was astonished. The story unfolds a couple of years before the 2020 election. A key person in the orchestration of the “shadow campaign”, Mike Podhorzer, known as “the wizard”, began to essentially “war game” the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. Mr. Podhorzer is the Political Director of the AFL-CIO, the largest federation of unions in the United States, nominated and installed by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumpka.
Here are some of the highlights of the story:
” The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO, published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit “bargain, inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial justice protests – in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital, to “keep the peace” and oppose “Trump’s assault on democracy”. The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to “protect the election”.
What? It sounds like the Chamber of Commerce was afraid, and made a deal with the devil. No one kept the peace or came to the aid of the small businesses and stores that were being deliberately destroyed across the country, and continued even after the Biden victory.
It gets worse. “They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They “fended off voter suppression lawsuits (?), recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against “disinformation and used data-driven strategies” to fight viral smears.” So who was in charge of the cancel lever? Remember the Hunter Biden laptop story successfully buried……?
They blatantly admit censorship: “That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream – a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information”. Excuse me, but this sounds like Elections for Dummies, by Vladimir Putin…
To spare you indigestion and further depression if you haven’t read it, I’ll summarize it here.
Democratic strategists (I counted no less than 42 plus players and organizations in the article) met via Zoom and other methods, to ensure President Donald Trump was defeated. A lot of powerful people and millions of dollars poured into this effort. Many of the groups (and I’ll list them at the end) are Democratic Socialists – you can tell by visiting their websites. Many champion “disruption”, and support equal distribution of wealth. In the good memory of Dr. Martin Luther King who advocated that “we are not to judge anyone by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character”, this umbrella of activists seems to judge everyone by the color of their skin, their social and financial status, and dismiss American history as something to be abhorred and erased. While Trump wanted to lift up everyone, including funding black colleges and bringing industry to inner cities, hosting many roundtables of black clergy and industry, and begging the mayors of failing cities to clean them up and stop the violence, these groups were blinded to this message.
I’m not exaggerating their effort. I wish I was. There is a new race war and there are winners and losers. Trump lost, even though he championed the idea of Making America Great for everyone, regardless of the color of their skin, or their social and financial status. I challenge any of these groups to find otherwise. There are too many lines that shock and stand out in that story that are so disturbing – so why regurgitate such an indigestible banquet of poisonous rhetoric?
I do have to question AFL-CIO President Richard Trumpka, and Mike Podhorzer, who were part of the take-down of Trump. “On day one,” President Biden eliminated thousands of XL Pipeline jobs, within other states, including Joe Biden’s Pennsylvania, by the stroke of a cheap pen. All the towns with grocery stores, mortgages, schools – the things that make a town hum, will greatly suffer, adding to the challenges of a pandemic. Even Native American tribes that had signed deals with the Pipeline Initiative to receive help and funding within their communities are on the losing end. These were good paying “union” jobs, Mr. Trumpka and Mr. Podhorzer! Did not President Trump give incentives for major corporations to return from foreign shores, to set up plants here in the U.S., and gave us the best economy in our history? Why did you two work to sabotage his re-election?
This does not even cover the Dominion Voting Machines story, or the hundreds of sworn affidavits from poll workers of threats, intimidation and outright manipulation on voting day. That subject entirely is being censored on social media. The Time story just confirmed that a huge, well-funded network used social media, threats, and censoring to make sure this election went their way.
The most astonishing part to me is the level of fear and hatred of Trump, and Trump supporters. What happened on January 6th at the US Capitol was not a representation of either, and they know it. “Election night began with many Democrats despairing. Trump was running ahead, winning Florida, Ohio, and Texas easily, and keeping Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania too close to call. The Liberal Alliance gathered for an 11 p.m. Zoom call. Many were freaking out. Podhorzer presented data to show the group victory was as hand. “We wanted to be mindful of when was the right time to call for moving masses into the street. So the word went out: Stand down. Protect The Results announced that it would not be activating the entire national mobilization network today, but remains ready to activate if necessary“.
They were prepared for a meltdown, with a push of an app, if Trump was re-elected. Why? I, and seventy-five million voters want to know why?
For four years, conservatives were intimidated in restaurants and other venues, attacked and censored on social media, while we watched a summer of burning, looting, and destruction in major cities, attacks on law enforcement and rejection of a civil conversation and a return to law and order. Now the concerted effort to erase anything and anyone associated with the last president. This is nuts. I underestimated the level of rage and hate that permeated our culture and the effort underway to make sure the target of all this animosity was removed. I and most Americans thought we all just went to the polls and voted. We thought that campaigns championed their causes by tirelessly stumping city by city, and town by town. I wondered why Biden steered clear of the campaign trail for the most part. The cheering, and honking horns, the hats and yard signs meant nothing, because behind the scenes, in the shadows, money, power and intimidation bought this election.
Here are some of the organizations and people that participated in the shadow campaign, cited in the Time Magazine story:
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
AFL-CIO
Norm Eisen – Attorney / Obama Official – created the “Voter Protection Program”
Ian Bassin, co/founder of “Protect Democracy”
Mike Podhorzer / Sr. Advisor to President of AFL-CIO / created Analyst Institute and The Catalyst
The Fight Back Table
Democracy Defense Coalition
Planned Parenthood
Greenpeace
Indivisible (resistance group)
Move On.Org
Working Families Party
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
National Vote at Home Institute
The Voter Participation Center
Brennan Center for Justice @ NYU
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Twitter / Jack Dorsey
Dick Gephardt
Issue One
The Voting Rights Lab
In To Action
TikTok
Protect Democracy
Shenker-Osorio
Black Lives Matter
Women’s March
Sierra Club
Color of Change
Democrats.com
Democrat Socialists of America
Protect the Results
Business Roundtable
National Association of Evangelicals
National African American Clergy Network
Art Reyes III
Richard Primus
Published in General
Hence ALMOST- the Chamber is pro- immigration so they can be peeled off the Republican coalition intermittently. Big business is often pro-Democrat b/c regulation increases the cost of entry for new competitors not to mention the Democrats often will support crony capitalism ( that’s how Senator Warner made his millions).
He was purposely divisive even within his own party. Why would you expect that to be a winning strategy? Why should people come work for you when you antagonize them? As Jonah Goldberg pointed out, just for one example, trashing John McCain could easily have cost him 11,000 votes in Arizona. I’m sure that tickled a lot of his base but that’s a losing strategy. You can think all you want that McCain deserved it but there is a certain number of voters that you need that will never believe that. So, leave that subject alone. Stop giving people reasons to vote against you. It’s that kind of thing I’m talking about.
And this is why you will see the harsh words about McConnell because he is big buddies with the CoC where the really big money to support the pre-election effort we are talking about here was funded. In terms of funding your almost means very little. The Democrats got the money that was needed and since we are now seeing a very communistic structure to our governance I think the money will continue to go to Democrats.
LOL! Not interested in anything that idiot has to say.
And I do. McCain sicced the IRS on his own base. McCain pushed to give the Muslim Brotherhood more influence. McCain was knee-deep in the silly Russian Collusion hoax, promoting the “golden showers” garbage.
Except those smearing Mitch assert he is essentially an agent of China or at least its business interests- solely b/c his wife is of Chinese extraction. Those insinuations are not based on any facts- her parents LEFT China b/c of the Maoist takeover and became successful in the USA. The assertions amount to claims of treason and are bogus.
Not solely because. You seem to be suggesting it’s race-based animus. But I understand that he and his wife do have Chinese business interests, just like Joe and Hunter do.
It is all about the money. That is what is killing us. These people care about nothing but accumulating wealth and power.
And if you suggest that this is a bad thing, you get accused of being racist. Which is the sort of thing leftists did to us throughout Obama’s eight years. Now we have so-called “conservatives” using the same smear.
Too many conservatives access only leftist news sources. That’s a big problem.
McConnell is supporting the big tech oligarchs who have built their empires from the ground up in the USA. But the evolving business/political structure mirrors that of Communist China and, with the election process we have just witnessed, we will look like the CCP very soon. I’m criticizing support for Communist political structure not Chinese people.
By a suitably slippery definition you could say a majority of Americans have Chinese business interests. McConnell nor his wife have never been shown to have any dealings similar to the Biden clan’s with China. Ms McConnell’s father founded a very respected shipping company (in the US) and that is the source of their wealth- hardly a serious basis for an accusation. The conspiracy wing nuts will say- Yes but it ships a lot in Asia- so what? Do you expect a large company to avoid a major market?
I have criticized mainly McConnell’s support and close connection with Donohue and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that maintains strong ties to those very connected to China in ways that do not serve American interests but do serve Wall St and especially the big techs. I was criticizing that relationship before the election and now I can see that I was exactly on target since the TIME story’s release.
Two themes I emphasized about the upcoming 2020 election during the period of President Trump’s term: the Communist influence and McConnell’s close alliance with the Donohue and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. We see it now and with the Covid pandemic they are conducting an all out effort to eliminate as much of America’s small business sector as possible.
Biden (in his own words) created “the greatest voter fraud organization in history”? Raw “vote totals” of mail in ballots that only voted for Biden and left the rest of the ballot empty?
Democrats have been doing voter fraud since Reconstruction and Jim Crow … the obvious answer is that when they were given the weapon of mail in, they used it.
Well, your theory was correct.
Actually I think Biden said that his audience created it for 0bama, and they were now using it for him.
The question is was it a Freudian slip or just garden variety early dementia confabulation?
Who’s going to ask him?
And will he recall what he meant?
Shortish answer: I doubt very much that it was fantastical or delusional. I think he got thoughtless the way many people do, but not for the exact same reasons. He lost track of where he was and overestimated the intimacy of the crowd, but he knew who he was talking to and that they would understand and appreciate what he was saying. It was a judgment error.
He went on at some length about the audience’s creating and being part of the “greatest voter fraud organization in American history” and he knew exactly what he was saying and to whom and why, and to this extent what he said was appropriate. But it was impulsive and at the wrong place and time.
That needs to be presented in one of these upcoming court cases. Which would force the Biden team to either support Joe’s statement, proving it was an admission of guilt, or support the notion that he’s suffering from dementia and doesn’t know what he’s saying, which would probably get him removed from office a lot quicker than Kamala or Jill would like. But at least we could stop pretending that Joe is anything other than a puppet.
Meanwhile Sidney Powell wants people to remember:
“There is a very important case still active in Georgia. There is a very important case in which discovery is being granted in Michigan. That’s why the Michigan governor, AG and Secretary of State are trying to have us all sanctioned and disbarred. All their claims are frivolous, and they are going nuts! And there’s a big fight in AZ. Citizens need to make their voices heard to all their state officials and demand full forensic audits by computer experts. There is evidence still in the machines. Why do you think Dominion and Smartmatic are fighting so hard to keep us from accessing the machines—even though federal law requires all records to be kept for 22 months to make certain our elections are valid??” — Sidney Powell
Yes, big business is often pro-Democrat b/c regulations increase the cost of entry for new competitors, and ups the cost of operation for already established competitors. Many big business owners loved the idea of ObamaCare for that precise reason.
And with Biden making the $ 15 an hour minimum wage a priority, many big businesses are eager for that to occur also. The bigger businesses can afford that increase in costs. And knowing their smaller competitors will have to cut their workers’ hours back, which demoralizes the work force, and which also means things that were getting done won’;t get done, has them grinning all the way to the bank.
Could be. Seems to be a distinction without a difference.
URL? Things change from day to day, so I’d like to check the original.
Well, it goes to, He didn’t build that. And it tends to document the time and work that went into the election fraud organization.
Peter Schweizer dedicated a chapter in Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends to the McConnell-Chao team: “McConnell and Chao: From China with Profits.” It is simply false that the attacks on McConnell are racist. The claims of legal (because he and his gang wrote the laws) corruption are based on their apparent dealings with the Chinese government.
How did you @mimac get to this point?
Accusing people of being racist is how you shut them up.
Conservatives need to stop letting themselves be silenced by these gross accusations.
Didn’t accuse anybody of racism- just pointed out that the only linking of McConnell to the Chinese is his wife’s family business- which is an AMERICAN business and a success story. You can NOT show that I called anyone racist- not ever, never once. But I guess claiming victim status is easier than providing facts- heck the left certainly thinks so.