For
any given election, it is customary to expect some falsehoods.
An occasional overstatement of accomplishments, the underplaying of shortcomings mischaracterizing statements of opponents.
All
of this is political theatre.
While candidates and campaigns fabricate, government agencies must serve as watchdogs to reveal complete and factual information to every citizen so they can decide whom to vote for.
Why
is it necessary to state the obvious?
Because
matters have obviously gone haywire.
Just yesterday, following a court order, footage of the attack on Paul Pelosi at his San Francisco home was made public. The details were thoroughly covered by Andrea Widberg in her recent piece.
The reason citizens should be concerned about it is because the incident was used to push a narrative prior to the midterm elections.
This
wasn’t just a few conspiracy theorist blogging from their basement, it was a Democrat and media blitzkrieg.
Joe Biden described the attack as "despicable", and denounced a corrosive political climate for contributing to violence and baselessly claimed the attack appeared to be "intended for Nancy."
https://youtu.be/W8yD_6DG24g
Barack
Obama also claimed that the attack was politically motivated.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1586481557136605186
Hillary
Clinton blamed the GOP and its "mouthpieces" for spreading
hate and deranged conspiracy theories, adding that the attack was shocking but
not surprising.
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1586411168880807936
The
P.R. wing for the Democrats, which masquerades as the news media, pounced upon the story and used it to campaign for the Democrats weeks before the midterm elections.
Back then NBC News reporter Miguel Almaguer said the following the attack on Paul Pelosi.
“The
82-year-old did not immediately declare an emergency or try to leave his
home, but instead began walking several feet back into the foyer toward the
assailant and away from police.”
“Why
Pelosi didn’t try to flee or tell responding officers he was in distress is
unclear.”
“According
to court documents, when the officer asked what was going on, defendant smiled
and said 'everything's good' but instantaneously a struggle ensued as police
clearly saw David DePape strike Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer.”
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1588533925848104960
The
report was factual and consistent with the initial
police report and the contents of the police footage released yesterday.
Yet the
report was taken
down in a matter of hours with an editor’s note that “it did not meet NBC News
reporting standards”
The unofficial definition of these ‘standards’ is obediently parroting the Democrat narrative,
which Almaguer didn’t.
Consequently, Almaguer was
suspended because telling the truth under a totalitarian regime is seen as an act of rebellion that must be punished to send a warning to others.
The remaining Democrat
mouthpieces such as The
Washington Post, The
New York Times, Vanity
Fair, Vox,
and Rolling
Stone gleefully carried the claim that Paul’s assailant the right-wing extremist
narrative.
Government
agencies did their bit too.
Hours
after the attack, bulletins were dispatched to law
enforcement across the nation warning of a "heightened threat" of
domestic violent extremism against candidates and election workers driven by
individuals with "ideological grievances".
The suppression
of the police footage of the Pelosi attack was done purposefully to create a vacuum
that can be filled with the right-wing
insurrection narrative before the midterms, because the January 6th TV
show trial was receiving no traction at all.
But
this wasn’t the only suppression of information
On November
2nd. 2022, a few days prior to the midterms, Joe Biden's lawyers discovered several
classified documents in his former office at Biden's Washington
think-tank, the Penn
Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement
The
news was important because President Trump’s home was raided
in August 2022 that was conducted despite ongoing negotiations between the
authorities and Trump’s lawyers about the handover of the documents. There was also no
indication that Trump’s team was trying to impede the transfer of documents
back to the National Archives.
But the goal of the raid was political.
To make it appear that Trump’s actions were nefarious and that Trump was the only president in the history of the nation to mishandle classified information. The raid was used by the media to promote conspiracy theories about Trump wanting to sell nuclear secrets to adversarial foreign powers. It was sort of a sequel to the Trump-Russia collusion hoax and the claim that Trump is a force of chaos and recklessness.
But news
of classified docs at Biden’s former office became public more than two months
after the discovery on January 9th, 2023. This was obviously to prevent any harm to the Democrats during the midterms.
Government
agencies once again were found working for the Democrats as they led this act of suppression of key information along with the White House
This
was narrative manipulation.
On March
07, 2021, Biden signed an Executive Order on ‘Promoting Access to Voting’ that ordered
federal agencies to “consider ways to expand citizens’ opportunities to
register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the
electoral process.”
The Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) filed several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests relating to the order. Finally, DOJ released the information on the order but it was heavily redacted.
It remains unclear how Biden’s order was implemented on the ground.
Was it a collaboration
between the government and Democrat activists to coerce voters? Were government resources
used to campaign for Democrats? Did they conduct registration drives among likely Democrat voters? Did federal agents or 'activists' promote mail-in
ballots?
We
won't know, but the fact that details of the order have been suppressed makes it
likely that government resources were misused to help the Democrats.
There
were problems at the counting stations as well.
Following the midterm Gubernatorial race in Arizona, various discrepancies in the votes were revealed.
Internal communications between election officials in Arizona's Maricopa County after the Elections revealed that roughly 16,000 more ballots than the estimated number of ballots were counted and officials had no explanation about the reason for this major discrepancy.
We know this because the GOP Gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake took initiative to challenge these discrepancies.
Perhaps there were similar issues in other states that nobody bothered to challenge?
Recent
polling from CNN revealed that an astounding 48 percent of Americans do not
trust elections and even think it is at least somewhat likely that elected
officials will successfully overturn the results of a US election because their
party did not win.
Clearly, the suppression of key information, secret voter registration initiatives, and manipulations
of votes at the counting stations have a role to play in this mistrust.
Trust
in elections is essential for the survival of any civilized democracy.
Once
that erodes, so does the democratic character of the nation and soon there is total anarchy.
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