Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer - Conspiracy to Undermine 2020 Election EXPOSED

Feb. 5, 2021 - Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer

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Conspiracy to Undermine 2020 Election EXPOSED | Ep 123

Time magazine revealed what we’ve all been thinking. Bad-faith actors worked together to undermine Trump’s election using deceptive and manipulative tactics. Elijah exposes the people involved and reveals the deeper plot against the former president in this explosive exposé of the secret world of the global elite.

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	Beyond deamplification, we are going to the conspiracy years, we are going to be permanently suspending those accounts.
	Whether we believe Trump's tweets are inciting violence and having real-world power.
	I think we've seen that.
	black lives matter riots antifa terrorism the chaotic mail-in voting that was a signature of 2020 not to mention the dangerous social media censorship that we've come to know and love How come it all feels so connected?
	Like it's all part of a design or a plan?
	Well, that's because it is.
	In fact, there's a man behind that plan, and his name is Mike Podhorzer.
	He is a anti-white, anti-Republican, progressive strategist who has openly admitted to Time magazine that he worked with Black Lives Matter organizers, with Biden administration officials who are currently serving in the administration to completely manipulate, deceptively rig, and change the outcomes of the year of 2020.
	No, I'm not just talking about an election because, of course, we're not allowed to talk about that one anymore.
	I'm talking about people from the highest levels of the government to the greatest places of influence in big tech and in corporate America aligning themselves to completely upend the will of the American people in a master plan that some are calling a conspiracy, but the people behind it are just calling, well, what they did.
	And they're not even hiding behind any false walls.
	They're admitting it openly.
	This is a story how a few global elites came together to rig an entire year against the American people.
	My name is Elijah Schaefer.
	I'm the host of Slightly Offensive.
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	We're back, Savannah, and we are excited for this episode.
	We definitely are.
	You know, you and I were both kind of scrolling through the news, seeing what was going to be the most impactful thing to cover.
	And we definitely found it today.
	We found it.
	Let's jump into the story for today.
	Time magazine has right here on my screen, the secret history of the shadow campaign that saved the 2020 election.
	So let's break this down for a second.
	Number one, what they are talking about here is something absolutely important.
	This is they're talking about a secret history of a shadow campaign that saved the 2020 election.
	What it is, is they've reworded the words rig or fraud to now be a shadow campaign, which we're going to find out too.
	They use this word to fortify or to save the election, meaning they're saying that they're admitting that they used criminal activities and they used deceptive, manipulative propaganda.
	But the reason why they did it was important and it justifies their terrible use of anti-American ideas.
	Let's jump in to the article here.
	So it says, a weird thing happened right after the November 3rd election.
	Nothing.
	As the nation was braced for chaos, liberal groups had vowed to take to the streets, planning hundreds of protests across the country.
	Right-wing militias were geareding for battle.
	In a poll before election day, this is important.
	75% of Americans voiced concern about violence.
	But it says here, instead, an eerie quiet descended.
	And this wasn't by accident.
	This was by design.
	We are going to expose the bad faith actors, the groups, everything you thought you knew.
	Well, we are going to bring the evidence together with a lot of back end research to remind you that you are not crazy, that you have not lost your mind, that there are people in this world who have taken this country from underneath our feet.
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	Okay, so let's jump into this.
	So, as we get into the story here, we talk about this being rigged.
	And it's important to talk about why it was rigged because this is what happened.
	So, they knew that things were going, were awfully quiet.
	And the reason why they were quiet is because the people that were monitoring the election and were monitoring the year actually had already put a plan together to fortify and protect the election by, of course, manipulating the entire economy.
	It says here that a second odd thing happened amid Trump's attempts to reverse the result.
	Corporate America turned on him.
	Hundreds of major business leaders, many of whom had backed Trump's candidacy and supported his policies, called on him to concede.
	Now, Trump said, Of course, that it seemed right here like it was an orchestrated effort against him.
	The media, of course, told us all that we were crazy.
	This wasn't some cabal or conspiracy.
	Well, now they're admitting, well, in a way, Trump was right.
	There was an orchestration against him.
	This orchestration, of course, is absolutely insane.
	Check this out.
	This sounds like we're reading InfoWars here, but we're actually reading Time magazine.
	You know, it's so funny too, Elijah, because I was reading the rhetoric in this article and they mention a cabal of elites.
	It talks about how Trump was right, how this was an orchestrated event.
	And, you know, all of the things that we've been getting banned for and silenced for and even canceled from regular everyday life for.
	They admit in this article.
	They admit this.
	Yeah, and look at this.
	It says, it says this right here.
	There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs.
	Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans.
	Okay, so as we go on, it gets worse.
	All right.
	It literally does just, yeah, it gets worse.
	Worse.
	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 come together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump's assault on democracy.
	Okay, Elijah, my favorite part of that sentence is how it says they're sometimes destructive.
	How it's like a side note, how the destruction that goes along with BLM riots is just so rare.
	It's a sometimes thing, rarely ever happened.
	Yes, and this is what they're saying.
	So we're going to look at this in depth later.
	But essentially what he's saying is that the left manipulated society, pushed for destructive BLM riots that were by design.
	And this guy actually mentions the fact that they were allegedly working with Antifa as well.
	They use them by name, by the way, that they were using these destructive riots to blackmail corporate America who normally would align with Republicans and the threat of civil unrest in order to blackmail them into supporting the Democrats.
	Basically saying, if you don't support us, you're going to get more of what happened in 2020, the $2 billion of damage, the murders, and more of that's going to happen with over 450 groups we have ready to get you.
	We will jump into that.
	But they admit, check this out.
	Here's how they rigged it.
	This is the upfront before we even break it down.
	This literally says, we're going to go through this paragraph.
	Their work touched every aspect of the election.
	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, aka dissident or opposing political views.
	And they used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears.
	They executed national public awareness campaigns, propaganda that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over the days and weeks, training and conditioning America to accept the fact that the election could not be decided on the night of the election.
	They were preventing Trump's conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction, aka censorship and suppression.
	After election day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure that Trump could not overturn the result.
	Basically, they saw that pressure points means that there were actual possible, maybe alleged, I don't know, irregularities.
	Possibly there could have been places of small bits of fraud.
	I'm not making that claim.
	They're calling that pressure points.
	They're just kind of repackaging that word.
	But they're saying that they were looking for places where he could overturn.
	So they're meaning he could have, but they made sure that they stomped those out.
	The untold story of the election and thousands of people of both parties who accomplished the triumph of American democracy at its very foundation, says Norm Eisen, a prominent lawyer and former Obama administration official, right?
	Yeah, very nonpartisan, bipartisan effort from an Obama official who recruited Republicans and Democrats to the broad of voter protection program.
	Savannah, as we jump into this, we're going to go into depth into this.
	This doesn't, okay, we are a republic, first of all, not a democracy.
	But also, when you talk about a democracy, this doesn't sound a lot like the people getting their way.
	This sounds like elites working together to manipulate society and rig the country in the favor of what they want because they're afraid the people are going to get what they want.
	That's exactly what it is.
	And we were talking about this too.
	I think one of the most clear-cut examples of this was the way that big tech handled the election information and even the media.
	Back in, I believe, May, we were already hearing media articles about how there was going to be a red mirage.
	We weren't going to know what the election night results were on election night, which is not normal.
	So expect a red mirage.
	Don't expect to know who's going to win this.
	Expect that.
	And they were basically conditioning all of us for this, and we've been talking about it.
	And now they're basically admitting it.
	Right.
	No, and it's not even funny, actually.
	Because as we're going to get into this right now, it's pretty much insane.
	Look, this is how they segue into talking about this.
	They say, this is the inside story. of the conspiracy to save the 2020 election based on access to the group's inner workings, never before seen documents and interviews with dozens of those involved from across the political spectrum.
	It is a story of an unprecedented creative and determined campaign whose success also reveals how close the nation came to disaster.
	Okay.
	So this is a conspiracy.
	They conspired together to change the country to prevent Trump from getting into office because they were afraid.
	And we're going to see that they saw that he possibly could win and they weren't going to let that happen.
	Let's talk about who was behind this.
	We get into this, the architect.
	We're introduced to a man named Mike Podhorzer.
	Mike Podhorzer is the senior advisor to the AFL-CIO.
	Now, if we go to the AFL-CIO, this is a group that works with American unions.
	This is a hardcore-backed Democrat union that represents the workers.
	Now, typically, the way that Podhorse had been unsuccessful, let's say, in defeating Trump in 2016, was the fact that a lot of the corporations were on the side of Trump.
	And there's this constant battle between, you know, who represents the laborer and who represents the management.
	Now, Podhorser knew that he needed to turn the management against Trump, but he couldn't do it alone.
	Okay.
	So this is where it gets absolutely crazy.
	So Podhorozer, to kind of bring this into perspective, I think that we have, do we have this here?
	Yes.
	So we looked up a little bit of information on him.
	And Shocker here, he believes about replace, he believes in like a sort of what Wikipedia calls a white nationalist conspiracy theory.
	Now, the great replacement.
	Yes, the great replacement theory that white people are being replaced by non-white immigrants to be changed.
	Now, it's interesting that Wikipedia describes that theory as sort of a white nationalist, white supremacist theory.
	And Elijah, too, before we get too off of like, you know, the Wikipedia, I also too want to explain for those of us who don't know what the great replacement is.
	Basically, per Wikipedia, it's a white nationalist far-right conspiracy theory that the white population is being progressively replaced through mass migration, demographic growth, and drop in birth rate.
	Right.
	So they say it's a conspiracy theory.
	What's weird is, is Michael Podhorzer, in a conjunction with Vox.com, is actually talks about articles about actually replacing white people.
	And so this conspiracy theory that is pushed by white nationalists is actually a strong belief of the man behind this attempt to make sure that Trump didn't win.
	So he believes in replacing white people with non-white people to change the voting in America.
	You can check out that article.
	I mean, it's a crazy idea.
	It is insane.
	And it's like, I, but he's doing it and he's supporting it.
	Is he a white nationalist?
	I don't know.
	I don't think he's a white nationalist.
	But it's so weird on the internet how they always call things white supremacy and white nationalism.
	And then people admit, like, well, I am doing that.
	And then they go, well, if you, if you point it out, you're a conspiracy theorist.
	And that's kind of what's happening with this entire rigging here.
	They're going, well, we're telling you that they rigged the year.
	I'm not telling you that the election, there was massive fraud or anything like that.
	I'm not, I'm not, that's not my claim, YouTube.
	I'm saying these people admitted to manipulating the masses.
	And then you call this conspiracy theorists for saying that they did that.
	Now they're admitting it.
	And now what?
	What do we do?
	So it comes to the fact that Michael Podhorzer might be a white nationalist.
	He might be a white supremacist that also hates white people.
	And that's not beyond us in, that's not beyond us, Sav in 2020 at all.
	Yeah, it wouldn't be surprising.
	But you know what was interesting too, because we were doing a lot of research into this before this podcast today.
	And yeah, you know, again, this great replacement theory talks about mass migration, demographic growth.
	I don't know why I can't say that word today.
	And then the drop in the birth rate.
	And then in that article that Michael shares, it literally talks about how in 2013, that marked the first year that a majority of U.S. infants under the age of one were non-white.
	It talks about how the government predicted by 2030, immigration will overtake new births as the dominant driver of population growth.
	Literally every single thing in this theory that they're saying is based in white supremacy is in that article.
	And this is, again, from like the U.S. Census Bureau that this guy shared.
	Yeah, it is so weird that everything that is inconvenient to the left is called white supremacy and white nationalism.
	And then they admit that they're doing these things, but yet the narrative doesn't change.
	It always strikes me as a weird.
	And I'm not into identitarian politics at all, but this is identitarianism.
	And Mike Podhorse, I don't even know this.
	I'm just saying Mike Podhars.
	It's such a mouthful, isn't it?
	Michael Podhorzer.
	Yeah, Michael is an identitarian and he's in identitarian politics and he believes in replacing white people with immigrants that are non-white and he thinks it's a good idea to retain power.
	That's his words.
	That's actually his words and what he talks about.
	So that's not mine.
	But, you know, he was in charge of all this stuff.
	So basically what he says here is what's important.
	He goes, we were not prepared for the two most unlikely outcomes, Trump losing and refusing to concede, or Trump winning the Electoral College despite losing the popular vote.
	So they wanted to make sure that Trump didn't win because they said that it was possible that he could win.
	So he created this group right here called the Fight Back Table, a coalition of resistance organizations.
	Now, we looked into the Fight Back table, and one thing that's really interesting is I think this is them, right?
	Savannah, the Protect Democracy group?
	Yes, because I believe Protect Democracy was like the local level of this group.
	And so we went to their website and we just kind of pulled out the ways that they were saying they were preventing the corruption of elections.
	So that's what we're going to go through right now.
	Yeah.
	So this is actually from their website and they're about, Savannah took it out for me.
	They're explaining this is how they're helping America and democracy.
	This is how they're not rigging.
	Okay.
	Did we clarify?
	They are not rigging this.
	They are preventing the corruption of elections through the advocacy and litigation.
	We pushed South Carolina and Pennsylvania to replace their aging and vulnerable voting machines in time for the 2020 election.
	We organized the National Task Force on Election Crisis, a cross-partisan group of experts working to identify and mitigate potential electoral crisis.
	The task force educated and organized key stakeholders and decision makers in the media and entertainment and best practices for mitigating the chance of electoral crisis.
	What is it called?
	They lobbied major tech companies.
	They had a media summit.
	I think they also got rid of, you were reading earlier, they got rid of oversight committees that helped with election integrity.
	They essentially decentralized voting in key voter swing states.
	Like we've been saying, they changed the voting systems.
	They confused people.
	They pressured tech companies to manipulate information.
	They essentially did everything we accused them of during the election.
	And then they said that we were crazy.
	And then now they just like admitted on their website that we literally absolutely unended and possibly criminally manipulated sacred institutions in order to influence an outcome.
	And that's all I'm saying is that they influenced.
	I don't even need to talk about fraud or any of these things.
	It's that they had enough pieces on the outside to influence and move the country in a way that went against its natural recourse.
	And that was their purpose and their point.
	Exactly.
	And I mean, even in this article, it basically states how they got states to change voting system and laws.
	And then this group, Protect Democracy, lays out exactly how they did that.
	And remember, too, that it was these voting machines that were a huge point of contention during this past election.
	And look at what is mentioned here in these points on their own website that they personally had a hand in.
	Right.
	And so as we go back to this, let's look at this here.
	So he couldn't do it alone, though.
	So he formed this alliance and with this group.
	And, you know, it's called the threats to the 2020 election right here.
	It says here that Trump, right, the issue is that he will use his right-wing information system to establish his narrative and incite his supporters to protest.
	This is where we see why we coincidentally saw the increase, as we'll talk about in a moment, the censorship of conservatives and why it happened.
	It was all about stopping Donald Trump.
	He said, they're coming after me because they want to come after you.
	Then we have this convenient thing that happened called COVID.
	It says then the COVID-19 erupted at the height of the primary election season.
	Normal methods of voting were no longer safe for voters for the most elderly volunteers who normally staff polling places.
	Shocker.
	Oh my gosh.
	All of a sudden, during this heightened plan to change America and to make sure Trump didn't win, there's this convenient pandemic and we cannot vote in person.
	Imagine we have to overhaul the entire election system to protect old people.
	Oh my gosh, Elijah.
	It's like, you know, what's so baffling to me?
	It's like they had the perfect setup to have to implement mail-in voting.
	I know.
	It's so strange.
	It's like so coincidental, right?
	Right.
	And like every good liberal, he started a two and a half hour Zoom meeting that was an invitation only gathering that soon attracted hundreds, creating a rare base of knowledge for the progressive movement.
	Now, as we go on, I love how they say this is the best part about it.
	But the group had no name, no leaders, and no hierarchy, but it kept the actors in sync.
	Sounds like Antifa.
	Yes, that's exactly.
	It's like, oh, there's no leader, but we do have a time and a meeting place and an agenda and an organizational strategy and an end goal, but we're not real because this is their always tactic.
	It's like, well, but there's no paper trail.
	It's like, well, but you are admitting that the left uses these cohesive groups to commit their acts of terrorism on the country.
	We're going to find out that this group was influential in organizing and influencing the terrorist attacks that took place over seven months on our country.
	And they're using the end, what we should call this like the Antifa alibi, right?
	Yeah, like the Antifa method.
	I like how you're like, yeah, we have, you know, multiple local chapters in each state, in each town, and we are backed by millions of dollars.
	But as you guys can see, there's no set leader.
	There's no hierarchy.
	So technically, it's not really, it's just an idea, really.
	It's just an idea.
	It's just an idea.
	Okay.
	So then they go on to the next plan.
	This is stage three, which was securing the vote.
	And they said that the first task was overhauling America's bulky election infrastructure in the middle of a pandemic.
	So, you know, the best thing you could do in the middle of a pandemic is you need something.
	You need a crisis to overhaul the voting structure.
	So whether or not you can argue they, you know, took advantage of this, whether or not they caused this, whether or not it was an accident and a useful accident, never let a good crisis go to waste, ladies and gentlemen.
	Never let it go to waste.
	And they had to overhaul it.
	But here's like the thing, like every single left-wing person in the middle of a pandemic for thousands of local, mostly nonpartisan officials who administer elections, the most urgent need was money.
	We need lots of money.
	What's the best way to get money to overhaul a system?
	It's to pass legislation that looks like it's to help the American people.
	The CARES Act, you remember that with our stimulus checks, which really gave $400 million in grants to state election administrators.
	Essentially, they earmarked in money to help to overhaul and change the American system to rig it in favor of the Democrats.
	We'll find out in a little bit too, that they knew that overhauling the system would shift the election in terms of Democrat voters.
	I don't know how they knew that, but they did.
	Some may call that fraud.
	I wouldn't.
	Some may call that a conspiracy.
	I wouldn't.
	Times would.
	But that's just what some people would call it.
	I don't know about you.
	And Elijah, too, this CARES Act.
	Who's funding this?
	Is that funded by our taxpayer dollars?
	Okay, so we are funding this as well.
	I love that.
	I love it when the government takes our tax dollars and then uses it to fund their corrupt organization.
	That's my favorite thing.
	Me too.
	And also, do we have a?
	I think I have, where is this?
	Do I have a picture of, is this it?
	Yes, bring this up on my screen.
	Okay, what do we got here?
	You remember this guy?
	He speaks in binary.
	He sleeps.
	He sleeps on the roof.
	He's Mark Zuckerberg.
	He's the CEO and founder of Facebook.
	Maybe he's not the CEO anymore.
	I don't know.
	But he is, you know, he's very, very, very weird guy.
	So a lot of you may know that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative also helped fund $300 million of this.
	Facebook was directly behind changing the way that we do our elections to favor Democrat voters, as we'll see from the admission of Time magazine, not me.
	I would never make that admission because I'm not a conspiracy theorist, unlike the corporate media.
	But he gave $300 million.
	This is where we see big tech starting to collude.
	Okay.
	Now, what's important is that when they talk about at the end how this was successful, and I'm cutting through a lot of this for you, in the end, nearly half the electorate cast ballots in the end, nearly half the electorate cast ballots by mail were in 2020.
	So basically what it means is that's a weird wording, but it means that they successfully got half Americans to cast by mail.
	What they wanted, they achieved, and they admit that that was their end goal.
	Their goal wasn't to give a safe option for people to vote by mail if they wanted to, because that already existed.
	Their goal was to create a new way to confuse the voting system and to push the propaganda needed to make people accept that there was no way to interfere with it.
	And people believe that.
	And you can't even say anything different on the media anymore.
	It's crazy.
	However, they knew we were onto them, Savannah.
	They knew we were onto them.
	We've been onto them for a very long time, and so has Blaze.
	We knew that they were up to this BS and that we could see from the BLM riots that we were covering and the disinformation about this.
	They knew that the right-wing media, that the alternative media, the independent voices were not playing along with their plan and they needed to silence us.
	And we felt the pressure, right?
	We've been feeling it.
	Oh, yeah, definitely.
	And we've been following, I've been personally following along with this since COVID broke out in China last November because that's when really all of this started.
	And we saw the World Health Organization cover for China.
	We saw our media complicit in that.
	And it was that initial thing.
	It was that initial pattern that I saw.
	Okay, this is how all the organizations work together internationally and within our own nation to kind of, I guess, guide public perception on specific events.
	So how are they going to use this exact tactic for the election?
	So, you know, even COVID can be related back to this because we have been following, you know, that type of reporting, these types of things, how the government has been working with these organizations.
	And it actually all ties in to today, to where we are right now.
	Right.
	And that's why it says here that they knew that there was these bad actors spreading false information that was nothing new, right?
	Everybody who challenged the narrative were false, right?
	When we were challenging masks, when we were challenging China's quotas and saying how many people died from COVID, when we were challenging the efficacy of BLM and its genuine authenticity, when we were challenging whether Antifa was a real organization or that they were being pressured in the election, we were always false until now that we were actually telling the truth because we were only bad actors as long as our information was inconvenient.
	But once they accomplished their goal, they were fine with it.
	So let's talk about the woman behind it.
	So Laura Quinn is a veteran progressive and she plotted, of course, a nameless and secret project, which she never before publicly discussed.
	So nothing says democracy like secretly planning projects.
	Government projects.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Social projects and government projects to change the way society works.
	Nothing says that the will of the people, like not letting the people know what's happening behind closed doors.
	I don't know, Elijah.
	I always thought that democracy could be translated into manipulating the masses via media, big tech, and, you know, forcing everyone to think one specific way.
	I thought that's exactly what democracy was.
	I'm done.
	I'm done with this.
	Honestly.
	I mean, technically, the people voted.
	You had to manipulate them first, but technically it was their decision, right?
	These people are so damn evil.
	Listen.
	The most important takeaway from Quinn's research, however, this is so predictable, was that engaging with toxic content only made it worse.
	She's quoted saying that when you get attacked, the instinct is pushed back, call it out and say this isn't true, Quinn says.
	But the more engagement something gets, the more the platform boosts it.
	The algorithm reads it that as, oh, this is popular.
	People want more of it.
	So her research that she spent all her time and money on was that her conclusions were, if you try to combat the false information, it doesn't work.
	Okay.
	So it's like, when you try to come against these people, it doesn't work.
	AKA, maybe they're telling the truth and people see that, that you're the ones that are lying and they're not the bad faith actors you are.
	So she's setting this president saying, I know typically throughout history, when there's a wrong idea, we try to confront that idea and argue about it or discuss it.
	We can't do that anymore.
	We can't discuss ideas.
	We need to make sure that those ideas don't go anywhere because then those ideas get out and we have to decide.
	Nothing says democracy like deciding for the people what ideas they can or can't see.
	And you know, we saw this too with even just the manipulation of our own wording with them saying that disinformation was now dangerous and that opponents who are spreading this disinformation need to be silenced.
	I mean, we saw this exact tactic with AOC and the Capitol January 6th story.
	You know, everyone who came out and said hashtag Alexandria Casio Smollette, she put out a press release and was like, you need to go and get these people silenced because they're trying to discredit what I say.
	It's disinformation and it's dangerous.
	So we've seen the manipulation of these words.
	And again, look at what it has led to.
	Look where we are.
	Right.
	And they can get the tech companies because they did.
	Because look, so this is before they implemented the mass censorship and fact-checking of conservatives primarily.
	She said the solution, she concluded, was to pressure platforms to enforce their rules, both by removing content or accounts that spread disinformation and by more aggressively policing it in the first place.
	She's quoted saying that the platforms have policies against certain types of malign behavior, but they haven't been enforcing them.
	So she goes, anything that spreads disinformation.
	Now, remember, disinformation is just information that hasn't come out yet.
	A lot of us actually still research and we are journalists and reporters and commentators and we do our homework and we think about things and we discuss and we have meetings and we have group content and we go, ah, these things don't line up.
	We actually create storyboards and group documents and we go, I think this is more where the truth is.
	Nobody knows everything.
	That's true, but we do our best, right?
	Especially here on this show.
	They're saying that if anybody who challenges information that is the status quo, which has been wrong, right?
	There was no masks, then one, then a cloth covering, then a mask, then two masks.
	Now we're at triple masks.
	I say just stick a plastic bag over your head, tie it with duct tape, and then all your worries will go away.
	Oh, and then don't forget too, guys, guys, just wear a mask until enough people are vaccinated.
	Actually, now that people are vaccinated, we need to double mask and don't forget to social distance as well.
	Right.
	And thank Mark Zuckerberg.
	So Quinn's research gave ammunition to advocates pushing social media platforms to take a harder line.
	A harder line on what?
	Well, shows like this.
	In November 2019, Mark Zuckerberg invited nine civil rights leaders to dinner at his home, where they warned him about the danger of the election-related falsehoods that were already spreading unchecked.
	It took pushing and urging conversations, brainstorming, all of that to get to a place where we ended up with more rigorous rules and enforcement.
	It says Vanita Gupta.
	We're going to talk about her for a second, the president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.
	So now we're introduced to this person named Vanita Gupta.
	Do we have, take it off my screen real fast?
	I'm going to look for this.
	Just put me full screen.
	And you know, Rudge, while you're looking for that image, I would just like to point out, too, that this crackdown on disinformation, it happened after the election of Donald Trump, of course.
	Remember when the media was running with these Russian collusion stories for years?
	We had to listen to that.
	We had to see that on our social media platforms every single day.
	It was never an issue.
	We saw so many of these false stories spread about Trump.
	Remember how he called military members bad names and all of this just unfounded claims.
	That's okay for big tech to run rampant on that.
	All of those fake rumors and claims are allowed to be spread.
	But as soon as it's, you know, people on the right who are speculating about what's going on, it's off-limit.
	It's dangerous.
	It's disinformation.
	Right.
	And look at this.
	So check this out.
	This is Vanita Gupta, guys.
	This is who she looks like.
	Now, why is she significant?
	Look at her.
	Beautiful, great, amazing.
	There she is with Kamala.
	Where is she?
	She's right there at the Kohl in the third row.
	Oh, yeah.
	There she is.
	Totally nonpartisan.
	Amazing.
	Just somebody who wants looking out for the truth.
	She wants transparency online.
	You know, she just cares about the country.
	It's like, we did it.
	She just cares, you guys.
	I just cares so much.
	I just want to help.
	Well, it turns out.
	Oh my gosh.
	Vanita Gupta has been nominated for the Associate Attorney General by President Biden.
	The Biden administration is what worked to change the rules of censorship.
	The nonpartisan fact-checking that was created to somehow save the integrity of the election was coerced by an individual and research that's connected to the Biden administration.
	This is controversial.
	This is impeachable that members of an administration are using and weaponizing and manipulating free speech to oppress and suppress the opposition's ideas and to prevent them from getting into office.
	This is corruption at the highest degree.
	And I love how they put it in parentheses, like, oh, we just might want to mention the fact that.
	But guys, it wasn't enough to just get this done.
	They needed to get people on board.
	They needed to actually figure out how to spread the word.
	So they started a propaganda campaign.
	They were successful at that, by the way, as you know.
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	Let's talk about this, spreading the word here.
	So this is so good.
	So beyond battling bad information, see how they say not false information, bad information?
	Look at the word choice.
	They change all the words, right?
	We're here to fortify the election, not to steal it.
	I also want to remind you that it's crazy, right?
	This is so crazy.
	So they want to get rid of information that's bad for their agenda.
	There was a need to explain to the rapidly changing election process.
	Yeah, there was.
	Like, why the hell are you doing this?
	Because Trump was saying, right, it says Trump was saying that mail-in votes were susceptible to fraud and that it would be normal if some states weren't finished counting votes on election night.
	So they put $20 million behind this effort using lobbyists and corrupt individuals.
	No surprise there.
	But we're introduced to this new group called the Voting Rights Lab and into Action, which created state-specific memes, graphics.
	This is such a good thing.
	Text, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok urging that every vote be counted.
	Together, they were viewed more than 1 billion times.
	So they realized that the power of social media was not just suppressing the opposition and preventing people from growing.
	Guys, our impressions on this show have went down like 90%.
	Like, I'm not joking.
	Like, this is how bad they've ruined alternative media per se.
	That's crazy.
	And this is the frustrating part because the right or the Democrats know exactly what they're doing to the right.
	They know exactly how to coordinate their efforts on big tech and on social media to grab reach.
	And I was talking to our friend Drew Hernandez about this yesterday, and I was asking, how much more reach would our shows have?
	How much bigger would our voices be if we were allowed to freely and openly speak?
	90%.
	Just like the Democrats are allowed to do.
	They know that how important it is to utilize social media, just like they're emphasizing in this article, which is why they refuse to allow us to do it.
	Yeah, well, 90%.
	And also, it's exponential because as you grow 90%, 90%, we've seen them chop this channel down on a lot of channels like this.
	Obviously, you guys know we're fully demonetized.
	That's why we put ads in our show because we don't make any money here on this besides advertisements and your support at blazetv.com.
	But look, they said this.
	This is what's important.
	They use this to be viewed over 1 billion times.
	So they don't just think about censorship.
	They're like, we can also tweak the algorithms in our favor to push our agenda, right?
	You saw all the major social media platforms saying, here's how to vote.
	Remember, here's what to do.
	Here's how you can support voting.
	Here's how to send in your mail-in votes.
	Mail-in voting is safe.
	Remember all the disclaimers under everything, Savannah?
	It was like, everything was like, you can vote by mail.
	And they used the tech companies to push their ideas and their propaganda of how they wanted to.
	Remember, whenever the election was actually happening, I believe it was a week before, we were seeing headline on Twitter how mail-in voting is safe.
	We were seeing all of these headlines that were pushing what Democrats were wanting for weeks before the election.
	Right.
	And that's what we said.
	The organizations tracking polls found the message was being heard and that the percentage of the public that didn't expect to know the winner on election night gradually rose until late October until it was over 70%.
	So they had manipulated the masses through propaganda to make them believe that we could not figure out the election on election night, which is insane because we've always been able to fully pretty much understand that to an extent, right?
	I mean, there's always been contestions and issues, but it's like for the most part, we could call it per se.
	The media calls it, but then there's contestions and there's a normal, you know, that's normal.
	And I have seen nothing wrong with that.
	Well, if you go down here, it says that Podhorner, meanwhile, was warning everyone he knew the polls were underestimating Trump's support.
	So, this is where we get into showing how they manipulated the masses and how all the civil unrest in 2020 and the potential civil unrest we didn't see happen, which is bad for our job, but good for the country, is here.
	So, they talk about the racial justice movement of George Floyd, right, and how this worked.
	It was not a political movement, but they did say that the summer uprising had shown that the people's power could have a massive impact, that activists began preparing to reprise demonstrations if Trump tried to steal the election.
	So, what that is saying is that, you know, that they worked with these BLM activists, which he admits in this article, were a part of this table discussion, and that they were ready to sow 2020-level chaos, possibly exponentially worse, right?
	Which we saw over two dozen people murdered and killed.
	He said, We are ready to do this, right?
	Yeah, and remember when DC or DC has been boarded up for how many months now?
	Almost a year now, right?
	And Mayor Bowser, after Joe Biden was inaugurated, said, Hey, you guys can take your boards down now.
	Yeah, because he said this, like Americans plan widespread protests if Trump interferes with election.
	They had more than 150 liberal groups from Women's March to Sierra Club to the color of change, from Democrats.com to Democrat Socialists of America, joined the Project Results Coalition.
	And so, they were ready to go and mobilize and to cause chaos.
	They were ready to destroy this country if somehow they didn't win.
	And that's they called us violent.
	And that's what's crazy.
	It's like they were literally planning to destroy the nation if they didn't win.
	And then it's like, but they were like, well, but we're going to win.
	But if somehow it doesn't work and the democracy actually pulls through and people get what they want, this is what's so crazy.
	But they still didn't have the corporations on their side.
	So they said this about a week before the election, Podhoser received an unexpected message.
	The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wanted to talk.
	Now, his organization, which is the unions and the chamber, have a long history of antagonism, like we mentioned, because this is about the fight between labor and management.
	Well, we get down here, but behind the scenes, the business community was engaged in its own anxious discussions about how the elections and its aftermath might unfold.
	This is so important here.
	The summer's racial justice protests had sent a signal to business owners to the potential for an economy disrupting civil disorder.
	With tensions running high, there were a lot of concern about unrest around the election or a breakdown in the normal way we handle contentious elections.
	So essentially what happened here is that Podhorser, basically, the corporations that would back the people and back, you know, Trump, you might be asking yourself, like, why are all these corporations doing BLM, Black Lives Matter?
	Why are they getting on board with all this weird stuff?
	Like, it doesn't really make sense.
	Like, why then?
	Like, why are you on board with this?
	Well, that's because the civil unrest, part of it, we thought was like, why are they letting them destroy businesses?
	And why are they looting Walmart and looting Target and targeting all of these major businesses?
	Why do they keep targeting Starbucks and targeting these places?
	Well, now we know why they were targeting small businesses.
	They were targeting small businesses to crush the associations of small businesses and to make them afraid that if Trump wins, that these riots won't stop and they will never be able to get back to normal.
	They also won't stop the shutdowns, but also corporations were getting pillaged and plummeted and there was instability in these areas.
	And they basically blackmailed the corporations and said, yeah, if Trump wins and there's contentions and there's genuinely like they genuinely bring up issues of fraud and things and we look at these pressure points, we are going to break this SHI.
	We're going to break it down.
	We're going to like, we're going to break this SHET down.
	And so if you do this, we're going to destroy America and you're going to pay the bill.
	Elijah, these are literally mafia-like tactics.
	You know how the mafia goes to small businesses and say, hey, you pay us to protect you from us.
	These are mafia-like tactics what we're seeing now.
	They utilized BLM and Antifa and said, okay, if you don't want your business destroyed anymore, then you're going to listen to what we have to say and you're going to implement it.
	Exactly.
	And that's why he said this.
	Check this out.
	It worked.
	Such a shame.
	Although we may not always agree on the desired outcomes up and down the ballot, we are united in our call for the American democratic process to proceed without violence, intimidation, or any other tactic that makes us a weaker nation.
	So it was like they cared about the economy and they were like, okay, look, we'll just do what you say.
	It's like being held at gunpoint.
	The businesses told the Democrats, we'll do what you say.
	We'll join your movement as long as you just leave this country at peace because we cannot afford this.
	And I bet you that's why we also reopened up because I bet you on top of this, this is my speculation.
	They were saying like, look, not only will we give you the election and we'll back you up, but you've also got to scale back the pandemic and you've got to start opening back up as well to return a normalcy because I don't think these are all evil people.
	I just think they got pushed into the corner like anyone would with the with the mafia.
	So it's crazy though.
	I want to bring up a couple things and I want to kind of bring this to a wrap.
	There's more to the article.
	But the kind of way that I say they rigged the election is because the liberal alliance gathered for an 11 p.m. Zoom call.
	When I say rigged, by the way, I'm not talking about widespread fraud.
	I mean changing the parameters to be in your favor.
	And they did that.
	And this article says they did that.
	So, you know, if I can't, if you want to strike me for just reading the article and saying what they said, fine.
	And I think that rigged is a fair word to say as well, because like you said, again, I'll use the Hunter Biden story for an example.
	Twitter suppressed New York Post from being able to share that story.
	A lot of people who read the story a couple days later were like, or even, you know, after Joe Biden's vote had already been cast, said, if I had read this, I would not have wanted to vote for Joe Biden.
	That, in essence, is rigging the favor for Joe Biden in the public's eye.
	Oh, fully.
	And that's why we don't need to talk about election fraud because it doesn't even matter.
	It's like it doesn't even matter at this point.
	It's like every other aspect is important enough.
	And so it's like people say, oh, Elijah spreads debunked theories of election fraud.
	No, I don't even talk about election fraud.
	I don't even know.
	Honestly, there's so much to talk about that it's like, I don't even know where to begin.
	But I don't, I don't spread it because I'm like, I'm not trying to make the point.
	I never have been.
	I've said that they manipulated the country with shutdowns and with BLM with riots.
	That's been my narrative.
	And I will keep it because I'm mostly focused on culture, society, and I'm not focused on analytics and policy.
	It's usually not what this podcast is about.
	I'm usually focused on the deeper workings and the cabal and what's happening.
	We all know what's actually happening.
	Not all of which I can say, but you know, we'll get there.
	But they gathered at 11 p.m. the night of the election.
	Hundreds joined.
	Many were freaking out.
	But this is where it gets really important.
	Podhorras are presented data to show that the group, that the victory was in hand.
	How the f- Oh, sorry, I almost said the F-word.
	How the F did you know that the victory was going to be in your favor after the polls closed?
	How did you know?
	How they're like, my critics will be like, oh, well, that's because, you know, he knew that they were going to have all these mail-in ballots that hadn't been counted.
	How did you know they weren't counted?
	Like, how did you know after everybody that was freaking out, you knew you knew they were going to dump ballots?
	You bastard, you sick piece of shit.
	Literally, you are demonically evil and you did this intentionally.
	And it's like, oh my gosh, you knew.
	You knew what you were doing.
	You knew you were screwing Americans over.
	You are evil.
	Gosh, I am so, I'm done.
	And you know what, Elijah?
	People always try to say that liberals and Democrats are dumb.
	No, they're very smart.
	They're so smart.
	They're manipulative.
	They make you think that they're dumb and like, oh, we're passing these policies because we care.
	We don't, it's, you know, maybe we don't know the back end of things.
	No, it's all manipulative.
	They know exactly what they're doing.
	They know how government works.
	They know how to manipulate the public.
	Just like AOC, again, look who the most manipulative woman in Congress is, AOC, and look at the tactics that she utilizes.
	Yes.
	And so, look, talk.
	This is where we get into democracy.
	This is as we close it out.
	So you would go, okay, cool.
	They've manipulated and chosen, and the elites know how the election is going to turn out, even though the people's voting had closed.
	And so you go, okay, let's talk about saving democracy and fortifying it.
	This is not rigging it, by the way.
	This is fortifying it.
	I love that phrase too.
	We're saving democracy.
	Yeah, check this out.
	The conversation that followed was a difficult one, led by activists charged with protest strategy.
	We wanted to be mindful of when was the right time to call for moving masses of people into the street.
	So we wanted to plan and manipulate the masses into the street in a non-organic way to react in a way we tell them to.
	As much as they were eager to mount a show of strength, mobilizing immediately could backfire and put people at risk.
	Protests that devolved into violent clashes would give Trump a pretext to send in federal agents.
	So by the way, they know they mobilize things intentionally to have violent clashes.
	They plan this out, okay?
	And other than elevate Trump's complaints by continuing to fight him, the Alliance wanted to send the message that the people had spoken.
	Just let's just end on that on that note.
	There's so much more to this, but I want to end there.
	The Alliance wanted to send the message that the people had spoken.
	The people didn't want to send the message that they'd spoken.
	The people hadn't spoken per se, but the Alliance wanted to make sure that that was the message that people understood.
	And they would manipulate the masses to make sure that it occurred.
	Like Elijah's just, we broke Elijah, guys.
	Elijah's broke it after reading that.
	Like, but you know what I'm saying?
	Yeah.
	What?
	This is insanity.
	It's this is not democracy.
	This isn't a republic.
	You're not, these are not elected individuals or officials.
	These are outside corrupt groups that are rigging the year, the entire year against us.
	And that's my conclusion.
	And that's where I stand.
	And I have nothing else to say on that.
	You can check out this full article.
	We'll put the link in the description.
	There's a lot more in it, too.
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