Nations far poorer and less technologically advanced have no problem holding quick, efficient elections. Distrust in U.S. outcomes is dangerous but rational.
Greenwald is correct, and thus the question becomes, who benefits most from delegitimizing the election process? If you guessed it's those who seek to "fundamentally transform the United States of America" into a Marxist/ socialist state controlled by globalist oligarchs who disdain the very concept of the nation state itself, go to the head of the class.
The media loves the prolonged chaos. The punditry and professional on air teleprompter readers are in heaven. Every click on their sensationalist websites is $.
I’m a conservative (vote libertarian and GOP usually) and am sharing Greenwald’s blog with my buddies. Truth doesn’t have a party or stripe. It’s hard to find good journalism.
I pray to the Lord that Americans will value truth and justice over party. That they will concern themselves with serving others more than themselves and in the process serve our Lord. Politics is fleeting, your soul’s fate is eternal.
After reading all that it looks to me like one would have to be deranged to not be a conspiracy theorist. My current best theory is that the powers that be want to set Americans against each other and this is just another method they have chosen.
2020 is the definite year that the US state with help from the media, social media worked to subvert/brainwash a huge majority of the population, its methods and players naked for all to see.
What has happened is beyond Orwellian. Here are the undisputed facts:
- the media has been ramping up anti-Trump hysteria for more than 4 years chief among them Russiagate which was not only unsubstantiated when it was first reported but has subsequently been thoroughly debunked with various participants in stoking Russiagate outed from the shadows over the past year.
- the media has consistently portrayed Trump as “authoritarian” though by any neutral measure the Governors of Dem states have shown to be more authoritarian than Trump who actually gave them a lot of power to decide on how to handle COVID-19 as well as not pulled triggers available to him as POTUS to order the National Guard in against violence in Dem controlled states
- the media alternately suppressed the undisputed Hunter Biden emails and peddled the unsubstantiated lie that they were part of Russian Disinfo. While there are still many questions about the implications of the contents of the emails/photos from personal wrongdoings to illegal activities to corruption by a POTUS candidates, as big a scandal is the media role in protecting Biden.
- the media has been spectacularly wrong about the polling in key states
So to expect the media to report on any Dem irregularities - all the disputed states are Democratic held and Georgia is held by a RINO - is too much to ask.
What has happened is the kind of regime change that the US state has engineered worldwide: media disinformation, demonization, election interference. Except this time the target was a sitting POTUS.
I woke up this morning to the reality that there is no media source I can go to for a quick, unbiased, non-moronic, overview of where we stand in the election. The sources I trust (such as Glenn) either do not have the resources to have meaningful analysis at the moment or it’s not really in their main areas of reporting to facilitate them quickly producing a substantive report. What does that tell us about the U.S.?
It reminds me of when the last (or one of “the last”) reports on Russiagate came out: the MSM had “analysis” of what was in the report within hours all the while telling the reader the report was a thousand pages long so the reader should trust their outstanding speed reading skills! Four days later Aaron Mate reports on it with the caveat that it’s a thousand pages long so he still hasn’t been able to fully digest it, yet he could provide key points for his listener/reader to check for themselves unlike the mainstream repeaters who’s substance could be predicted before reading what they said - or even before the report was released.
It's simple. History show that the United States of America, that pretends to "spread democracy" to the rest of the world (apparently supporting oppressive dictatorships counts as "spreading democracy") does not know, and never has known, how to hold an election. I live abroad, and where I live there is never any problem in holding an election. Ballot boxes are not stuffed. We never discover thousands of ballots in a trash dumpster. Only people who are alive get to vote, but live people are never allowed to vote more than once in the same election. Every legal resident (and we must register our legal residence) aged 18 or older is automatically registered to vote and notified of the appropriate polling place. There is rarely a wait of more than 15 minutes to vote at a polling place. One may vote early, but only by going to the designated polling place. It's virtually impossible to invalidate a ballot unless it is deliberately made invalid by the voter (for example, by leaving it empty or writing in someone not on the official ballot.) Results are known within a few hours of the closing of the polling places. I daresay that what I have just described has never happened in, say, Chicago, and rarely in any machine-run city (which is most of the big cities in the USA). Perhaps a few states can approach this kind of performance, but apparently not most of them. But I find it likely that late reporting is almost always associated with nefarious vote juggling. Counting votes is not rocket science—obviously, since Americans are reasonably good at rocket science, but hopeless at running an election. Is that a "national disgrace"? Yes.
After two major elections where the polls have been completely wrong towards the same party, I am starting to think that they are a form of disinformation and election interference. For months, the so-called top polls predicted a landslide win by Mr. Biden. Didn't happen. But for these same months, American voters were told over and over again that it would. This does effect voter behavior through the desire to win complex that is often human nature. I think polling should be now outlawed as part of US election law. It serves no useful purpose other than to gin up views and clicks.
When the US was a primitive, agrarian society, States simply counted the votes, announced the result and everyone went to bed. As Democracy became more sophisticated, election coverage turned into an all night extravaganza. However, Florida in 2000 demonstrated that an election could be drawn out for weeks, and the cable news networks broke ratings records and raked in advertising cash. Since then, other States have pursued the cachet of becoming a swing state and introduced increasingly dubious voting processes to ensure the results are contested and therefore newsworthy. This is all part of the natural evolution of Democracy.
A few farsighted TV executives are already plotting the next step to increase viewership - an election followed by a civil war. Whether they can achieve this in 2020 is uncertain, but they are making progress.
agreed. the inefficiencies and politicization of the vote COUNTING is a global embarassment led by the pollsters and the MSM. imagine an election with a truly unbiased media.
GG, there's a election story I've seen very little coverage of--Democratic legal efforts to throw Green Party off the ballot. Perhaps most noticeably Wisconsin but other states as well? Particularly relevant given the razor-thin margins we're seeing.
Greg Palast is a bit of an authority on the comedy gold shenanigans, of the bogus US election process. his short 20 mins on Dore yesterday explained it very well.
Never been more ashamed and embarrassed to be an American. This should have been a resounding rejection of Trumpublican fascism, but instead shows how confused or misinformed or apathetic the voting public is. As for the ridiculous vote tallying, why isn't there a federal, paper-based standard for all citizens? Because chaos plays into the rightwing narrative...they will make it a selective 'states rights' issue.
Greenwald is correct, and thus the question becomes, who benefits most from delegitimizing the election process? If you guessed it's those who seek to "fundamentally transform the United States of America" into a Marxist/ socialist state controlled by globalist oligarchs who disdain the very concept of the nation state itself, go to the head of the class.
The media loves the prolonged chaos. The punditry and professional on air teleprompter readers are in heaven. Every click on their sensationalist websites is $.
I’m a conservative (vote libertarian and GOP usually) and am sharing Greenwald’s blog with my buddies. Truth doesn’t have a party or stripe. It’s hard to find good journalism.
I pray to the Lord that Americans will value truth and justice over party. That they will concern themselves with serving others more than themselves and in the process serve our Lord. Politics is fleeting, your soul’s fate is eternal.
Best wishes,
Frank
After reading all that it looks to me like one would have to be deranged to not be a conspiracy theorist. My current best theory is that the powers that be want to set Americans against each other and this is just another method they have chosen.
2020 is the definite year that the US state with help from the media, social media worked to subvert/brainwash a huge majority of the population, its methods and players naked for all to see.
What has happened is beyond Orwellian. Here are the undisputed facts:
- the media has been ramping up anti-Trump hysteria for more than 4 years chief among them Russiagate which was not only unsubstantiated when it was first reported but has subsequently been thoroughly debunked with various participants in stoking Russiagate outed from the shadows over the past year.
- the media has consistently portrayed Trump as “authoritarian” though by any neutral measure the Governors of Dem states have shown to be more authoritarian than Trump who actually gave them a lot of power to decide on how to handle COVID-19 as well as not pulled triggers available to him as POTUS to order the National Guard in against violence in Dem controlled states
- the media alternately suppressed the undisputed Hunter Biden emails and peddled the unsubstantiated lie that they were part of Russian Disinfo. While there are still many questions about the implications of the contents of the emails/photos from personal wrongdoings to illegal activities to corruption by a POTUS candidates, as big a scandal is the media role in protecting Biden.
- the media has been spectacularly wrong about the polling in key states
So to expect the media to report on any Dem irregularities - all the disputed states are Democratic held and Georgia is held by a RINO - is too much to ask.
What has happened is the kind of regime change that the US state has engineered worldwide: media disinformation, demonization, election interference. Except this time the target was a sitting POTUS.
I woke up this morning to the reality that there is no media source I can go to for a quick, unbiased, non-moronic, overview of where we stand in the election. The sources I trust (such as Glenn) either do not have the resources to have meaningful analysis at the moment or it’s not really in their main areas of reporting to facilitate them quickly producing a substantive report. What does that tell us about the U.S.?
It reminds me of when the last (or one of “the last”) reports on Russiagate came out: the MSM had “analysis” of what was in the report within hours all the while telling the reader the report was a thousand pages long so the reader should trust their outstanding speed reading skills! Four days later Aaron Mate reports on it with the caveat that it’s a thousand pages long so he still hasn’t been able to fully digest it, yet he could provide key points for his listener/reader to check for themselves unlike the mainstream repeaters who’s substance could be predicted before reading what they said - or even before the report was released.
It's simple. History show that the United States of America, that pretends to "spread democracy" to the rest of the world (apparently supporting oppressive dictatorships counts as "spreading democracy") does not know, and never has known, how to hold an election. I live abroad, and where I live there is never any problem in holding an election. Ballot boxes are not stuffed. We never discover thousands of ballots in a trash dumpster. Only people who are alive get to vote, but live people are never allowed to vote more than once in the same election. Every legal resident (and we must register our legal residence) aged 18 or older is automatically registered to vote and notified of the appropriate polling place. There is rarely a wait of more than 15 minutes to vote at a polling place. One may vote early, but only by going to the designated polling place. It's virtually impossible to invalidate a ballot unless it is deliberately made invalid by the voter (for example, by leaving it empty or writing in someone not on the official ballot.) Results are known within a few hours of the closing of the polling places. I daresay that what I have just described has never happened in, say, Chicago, and rarely in any machine-run city (which is most of the big cities in the USA). Perhaps a few states can approach this kind of performance, but apparently not most of them. But I find it likely that late reporting is almost always associated with nefarious vote juggling. Counting votes is not rocket science—obviously, since Americans are reasonably good at rocket science, but hopeless at running an election. Is that a "national disgrace"? Yes.
Its works this way because it is intended to work this way;)
After two major elections where the polls have been completely wrong towards the same party, I am starting to think that they are a form of disinformation and election interference. For months, the so-called top polls predicted a landslide win by Mr. Biden. Didn't happen. But for these same months, American voters were told over and over again that it would. This does effect voter behavior through the desire to win complex that is often human nature. I think polling should be now outlawed as part of US election law. It serves no useful purpose other than to gin up views and clicks.
When the US was a primitive, agrarian society, States simply counted the votes, announced the result and everyone went to bed. As Democracy became more sophisticated, election coverage turned into an all night extravaganza. However, Florida in 2000 demonstrated that an election could be drawn out for weeks, and the cable news networks broke ratings records and raked in advertising cash. Since then, other States have pursued the cachet of becoming a swing state and introduced increasingly dubious voting processes to ensure the results are contested and therefore newsworthy. This is all part of the natural evolution of Democracy.
A few farsighted TV executives are already plotting the next step to increase viewership - an election followed by a civil war. Whether they can achieve this in 2020 is uncertain, but they are making progress.
It seems like there are incentives for the vote counting process to be inefficient since this problem of delay and doubt happens on the regular.
agreed. the inefficiencies and politicization of the vote COUNTING is a global embarassment led by the pollsters and the MSM. imagine an election with a truly unbiased media.
Bernie would have fucking won. Trump and Biden are losers. The media is fucked.
Just signed up for Glenn. I do not use any social media except parler. twitter facebook instagram google alphabet etc can drop dead asap.
GG, there's a election story I've seen very little coverage of--Democratic legal efforts to throw Green Party off the ballot. Perhaps most noticeably Wisconsin but other states as well? Particularly relevant given the razor-thin margins we're seeing.
Greg Palast is a bit of an authority on the comedy gold shenanigans, of the bogus US election process. his short 20 mins on Dore yesterday explained it very well.
https://youtu.be/aoY-oLDrtk0
many folks just don't know, or even want to know, the US is near the bottom, when it comes to election integrity, and getting worse with each cycle.
https://www.electoralintegrityproject.com/
bad theater, all around.
Never been more ashamed and embarrassed to be an American. This should have been a resounding rejection of Trumpublican fascism, but instead shows how confused or misinformed or apathetic the voting public is. As for the ridiculous vote tallying, why isn't there a federal, paper-based standard for all citizens? Because chaos plays into the rightwing narrative...they will make it a selective 'states rights' issue.