Thanks To Mail-In Voting, California Still Counting Ballots Two Weeks After Election
Democrats are aiming to use California's extensive ballot alteration possibilities to manipulate the outcome of a leftist ballot proposal.Democrats are aiming to use California's extensive ballot alteration possibilities to manipulate the outcome of a leftist ballot proposal.Was the Super Tuesday Facebook blackout a trial run?
It's beyond coincidental that on Super Tuesday, when a third of the United States held a presidential primary, two of the world’s largest and most influential social media platforms went down. Facebook and Instagram motivate and sway voters. When taken in conjunction with Meta’s recent ban on “political posts,” it’s hard to believe last week’s hours-long outage was not a trial run for November.
With its nearly unlimited reach, social media has become the most important platform for politicians to advance their messages. Presidential election years are by far the most important — and most lucrative — for social media companies. Hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake. And that’s just for the political ads.
The last two presidential elections were shot through with fraud. The 2024 election year may be the worst yet.
But ads are not where the money blitz begins and ends. Think of all the news shows, podcasts, and influencer posts, and the increase in content views due to peaked user interest during an election year. Now, think of the ads inserted in videos and on influencers' pages. The revenues can easily reach the billions, depending on the platform.
Now, here’s the trouble. In recent years, we’ve learned how Facebook and Twitter (now X) actively engaged in election interference and censorship. In fact, censorship is the mark for election interference, and we’ve seen this for a decade as conservative voices have been “shadowbanned” or throttled.
Election years are when the censorship goes into overdrive. We’ve seen the Twitter Files, which exposed how the company worked hand-in-glove with federal authorities, including the FBI and CDC, to suppress disfavored views.
We’ve seen the bans of only prominent, conservative handles for posts that “go against standards.”
We've seen even the smallest accounts get banned for posting opinions that ran afoul of the platform narrative.
We've seen and heard in congressional testimony that Facebook’s “fact checkers” are simply opinion checkers and have free rein to flag any posts they see fit.
We saw Facebook and Twitter suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story that broke right before the 2020 election and most certainly would have undermined Joe Biden's chances of winning a free and fair election.
All of these are classic forms of election interference.
Recently, Meta, which includes Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, issued a ban on “political content.” This is truly puzzling as the company did not clearly define what “political content” is, or whether the ban extends to political advertising. As head of a publicly traded company, Mark Zuckerberg has a fiduciary responsibility to do the best he can for his shareholders. Surely then, he would not turn down hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue for political ads would he? Whose interest would that serve, if not Meta’s shareholders?
Election years offer alternative social media platforms the chance to exploit earning possibilities. Some better than others. In a move sure to alienate users, Gab, which is popular among some conservatives for its unfettered speech, went to a paid model without much warning. Many users logged in one day to learn they would need to pay $9.99 a month for the privilege of posting any picture, meme, graphic, or video. Businesses would pay more — from $99.99 up to $499.99 a month. Whether it is desperation or trying to capitalize on the election year, the move is a risky and potentially fatal one for Gab.
As the cliché goes, this is the most important election of our lifetimes. The last two presidential elections were shot through with fraud. The 2024 election year may be the worst yet, and it’s all being advanced by corporate media, politicians, and Big Tech. The left has never been more desperate and will do anything to thwart Donald Trump from retaking office. Big Tech social media is the left's number one weapon and biggest asset in their arsenal of fraud.
Democracy is undermined and attacked when Americans’ First Amendment rights are suppressed. You are under attack. Every thought Americans have can be affected and opinions swayed to match the Big Tech social media narrative. This is why I founded Wimkin Social Media, a true alternative to Facebook with nearly all the same features, that provides true freedom of speech. We’ve beaten app store bans, cancellations by banks, infrastructure providers, and mainstream media attacks. Even the House Select Committee on January 6 tried and failed to shut us down. I hope you will join me and our millions of patriots there who understand that every moment spent on Big Tech social media is a moment your freedoms are under attack.
Together, through awareness and truth, we can take our country back.
Dear MSNBC, I Care About The Border Crisis Because Illicit Fentanyl Killed My Daughter
The fentanyl pouring into our country propelled overdose deaths to a new record, but MSNBC thinks the border crisis is a punchline.After Losing First-In-Nation Caucus For Being ‘Too White,’ Iowa Democrats’ Tuesday Isn’t Super
The preference card scene was humiliating. I felt a revulsion experienced by anyone who has ever witnessed linoleum-level grovelling.Nearly 1 In 5 Minnesota Democrats Voted ‘Uncommitted’ To Protest Biden
The votes cast against Biden in favor of an 'uncommitted' option confirm how much sway the most radical wings of the Democrat Party have.MSNBC talking heads ridicule Virginia voters who expressed concern about illegal immigration
Former President Donald Trump handily crushed Nikki Haley in 14 out of 15 Republican primaries on Super Tuesday, the exception being Vermont. While the day marked the end of Haley's campaign and gave a clear indication of who will ultimately take on President Joe Biden in the general election, the primaries also provided critical insights into the top issues animating voters.
Exit polls revealed that immigration was a top concern cited by Trump voters in Virginia and in other states.
Former Biden press secretary Jen Psaki and other MSNBC talking heads apparently found voters' concerns about the costly, deadly, and destabilizing influx of millions of illegal aliens into the nation to be amusing, once again evidencing the media's detachment from the stark realities gripping the nation.
Telling exit polls
Exit polls conducted by Edison Research for the National Election Pool in Virginia and North Carolina revealed that a plurality of Republican primary voters cited immigration as their top concern. Follow-up questions clarified what type of immigration was top of mind.
Overall, the Washington Post reported that roughly 4 in 10 Republican voters said immigration was their top issue in all three states.
In Virginia, 38% of Republican voters said immigration was their top concern. Within this camp, 78% voted for Trump. Immigration edged out the economy, which was cited as a top concern by 34% of voters. Only 11% of Republican respondents in Virginia suggested foreign policy was their top concern. Haley voters made up 74% of this cohort.
In North Carolina, 41% of Republican voters said immigration was their top concern. Within this camp, 84% voted for Trump. 33% said the economy was their top issue and 11% suggested abortion was the most pressing concern.
In California, concerns over the state of the economy surpassed concerns over immigration by 4 points, 43% to 39%.
When asked about what should be done about illegal aliens in the U.S., 61% of Republican respondents in Virginia, 63% in North Carolina, and 69% in California said they should be sent packing to the countries they came from.
Exit polls also found that 64% of voters trusted Trump more on border security than the Democratic incumbent, who has overseen the illegal entry of well over one million foreign nationals just in the last five months and several million more since taking office and halting construction of the border wall.
Telling mainstream mockery
Former Biden press secretary Jen Psaki, Joy Reid, and Rachel Maddow cackled Tuesday night over the dominant concern expressed in the polls.
"I mean, if you look at some of these exit polls — I mean, I live in Virginia — immigration was the number one issue," said Psaki.
Reid laughed and Maddow grinned at the civic reaction to the Biden administration's handling of the border crisis.
Maddow chimed in, saying, "Well, Virginia does have a border with West Virginia. Very contested area."
One panelist can be heard sarcastically saying off-screen, "Build the wall!"
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The MSNBC talking heads appear to have found Virginians' concerns over immigration laughable because respondents don't technically live in a border state, hence the remarks about Old Dominion's border with West Virginia.
However, immigration is hardly a crisis limited to those beleaguered communities along the southern border, thanks in part to the Biden administration's reported efforts to fly hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens to various cities across the country, such as Boston, New York City, and Chicago.
The problem of illegal immigration is not only at Virginians' doorstep — it has compromised their safety. Just prior to Psaki's latest bout of laughter, an illegal alien from Venezuela was charged in Virginia for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl. He reportedly stole into the nation on Sept. 2.
Democrats and their friends in the liberal media may continue to shrug off concerns over immigration, but they are increasingly in the minority.
A Monmouth University poll revealed last week that more than 8 in 10 Americans recognize illegal immigration as either a very serious (61%) or a somewhat serious (23%) problem.
Blaze News noted that when broken down by political affiliation, 66% of Republicans, 42% of independents, and 33% of Democrats told Monmouth pollsters in 2015 that illegal immigration was a very serious problem. Nine years later, those figures jumped to 91%, 58%, and 41%, respectively.
Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, stressed in a release, "Illegal immigration has taken center stage as a defining issue this presidential election year."
"Other Monmouth polling found this to be Biden's weakest policy area, including among his fellow Democrats," added Murray.
In other words, Psaki, Reid and Maddow might be given a reason to stop laughing on Nov. 5.
Republican Sen. J.D. Vance (Ohio) was among the multitudes of critics who found the MSNBC panelists' remarks distasteful, calling them "gross."
"For these 'journalists' unchecked migration means cheaper servants," Vance wrote on X. "For most Americans, it means fentanyl in your communities, lower wages, and stressed public services. It means Laken Riley should be alive but isn't. #SayHerName."
Trump advisor Stephen Miller, the head of America First Legal, noted, "About 1 in 8 Virginia residents was born in a foreign country. 1 in 4 very young people in Virginia has a foreign-born parent. In Fairfax County Public Schools, as one example, roughly 20% of students struggle speaking English. Migration has completely reshaped Virginia."
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WATCH: Joy(less) Reid accuses Republicans of race-based voting: 'Drive all the blacks out of the colleges'
MSNBC’s panel of lefties is a bit salty about Super Tuesday’s results, which saw Donald Trump dominate Nikki Haley in all but one primary.
Their outrage is far from surprising.
Joy Reid, however, took her criticisms a step too far when she went on a rant accusing Republicans of voting based on race alone.
“[Republicans] don’t vote based on economics or based on the benefits they're getting economically from the president. ...They’re voting on race. They're voting on this idea of an invasion of brown people over the border [and] the idea that they can't get whatever job they want [because] a black person got it,” she said, adding that Republicans want to “drive all the blacks out of the colleges.”
“I didn't realize, all this time, I've been voting on race” and that “I didn’t care about the economy,” says Pat Gray sarcastically.
The irony of Reed’s racist tirade against Republicans’ supposed racism and cultural appropriation gets even stronger when you consider Reed’s hairstyle — a blondish-pink pixie cut.
“I'm not sure what culture that is, but it's not hers,” says Pat, pointing out the hypocrisy of the left’s constant finger-pointing over “cultural appropriation.”
To hear more, watch the clip below.
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