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Memory Holed, Part II: The "Rigged" Election

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Memory Holed, Part II: The "Rigged" Election

Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton raised doubts about elections in the same way, before and after votes

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Memory Holed, Part II: The "Rigged" Election

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BREAKING: I made a vid showing election fraud claims from both Dems & Repubs. In no way did I advance or endorse any of the claims. For documenting this history, YouTube just deleted it, blocked me, & gave me a strike—a step toward deleting my entire channel. @TeamYouTube 🧵/1
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Matt Orfalea’s follow-up video to his “The Russians Hacked the Election” piece rescues for posterity another key piece of history likely to be suppressed: the fact that both Democrats and Republicans raised doubts about the legitimacy of the election process. This took place not only after 2016, but both before and after the 2020 vote.

These campaigns were two sides of the same coin. Trump raised doubts about the reliability of mail-in votes, and admonished supporters ahead of time that a Trump loss should be understood as a fix. Meanwhile, Democrats and media figures — as well as a seemingly endless succession of named and unnamed intelligence sources — argued Russians were bent on corrupting the vote. Hillary Clinton went so far as to say Joe Biden shouldn’t concede “under any circumstances.”

It was not just a Republican-versus-Democrat issue. Both before and during the 2020 Democratic primaries, voters were also told repeatedly that Vladimir Putin preferred Bernie Sanders and was planning to interfere on his behalf. Even GQ did a story: “Why Does Putin Love Bernie?”

Sanders undermined his own campaign by giving these accusations weight, while Trump was criticized for pushing back against them. This video offers a crucial takeaway for anyone looking back to decipher what happened in 2020: both parties, and crucially our own intelligence authorities, worked hard to undermine election results in advance. And, they’re still doing it.

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Feral Finster
Sep 29, 2022

*Any* candidate outside the mainstream consensus will be smeared as a Russian agent. No evidence needed. Because Russia.

In this, Russians play much the same role thst Jews did not so long ago, when any development that the establishment of the day didn't like could be automatically blamed on Jews. No evidence needed. Because Jews.

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Hillary is not worried about nuclear war. If Russia fires nukes at Europe and the entire population of the world is wiped out, Hillary will crawl up from the rubble onto what's left of the White House and name herself president.

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