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M3333's avatar

The 2020 election was not compromised and the MAGAts went to court and lost over 60 cases because they could not show one bit of evidence of election fraud. Over the last 20 years the 34X felon has more felony convictions than the about 20 cases of election fraud at over 70-80 million votes for president. TWENTY CASES ORANGE IDIOT!!! Tired of the utter bullshit vote all blue and volunteer to help run the election!!!

Jack Hopkins's avatar

You're NOT wrong on the record: something like 60+ post-election suits...and they lost nearly ALL of them...often because they could NOT produce evidence that survived even a friendly judge.

Meanwhile...the documented fraud cases number in the dozens out of...155 MILLION ballots. That ratio is the ENTIRE argument.

And...yes...the volunteer part is the most useful thing in your comment. Poll workers and election judges...are how this actually holds.

Local election authority...not a hashtag.

Thanks for reading and for saying it plainly!

-Jack

Concerned Citizen's avatar

Same old song and dance from a chronic temperamental liar. I read that many of the networks are not changing their programming schedules to allow for his repetitive old rigged election statements. I will take a break from watching the actual event and catch up on your take later. He may very well hit all the boxes on the rigged election bingo card… again…for the umpteenth time.

#HOLDFAST #OUTLAST

Jack Hopkins's avatar

CC...don't blame you...ONE bit.

As of last night...nobody had announced anything. The Thursday 9 p.m. schedules still showed regular programming...and the reporting is the White House hadn't even requested the airtime. So it isn't networks refusing...it's the White House apparently not asking...and nobody volunteering. Interesting...to say the least.

For a man who once got wall-to-wall coverage...for riding down a damn escalator...that's the whole story in one detail.

Your plan is the right one. Skip the live feed...it's built to get the EMOTION in BEFORE the careful mind arrives. Read the transcript later...when it's just words on a page.

I've already filled out my bingo card. It goes out tonight. Grade me on Friday.

#HOLDFAST #OUTLAST

-Jack

Sher''s avatar

Bless you. I'm going to bed. I paid no attention to it. I heard it was wall to wall lies. I'll check it out in the morning.

Jack Hopkins's avatar

Sleep well, Sher'...zzzzzz

-Jack

Sher''s avatar

Will do!

Susan's avatar

Wait? Did I miss something? I thought it was Thursday night? Right? I haven’t decided if I’ll watch. He’s making my blood pressure do scary things lately.

Jack Hopkins's avatar

Susan...correct. Thursday night...and...since I posted this just after midnight...that's tonight.

Yeah...I know...it's kind of a brain scramble when it's late...and you're trying to keep the days straight.

You have no idea how many times a day I click over to my calendar..to check...once AGAIN...to see what day it is. (Or, maybe you do...lol)

-Jack

Susan's avatar

I do it too. Thanks, Jack

Sher''s avatar

I got it confused myself! Keeps my ass humble....(gawd). Remember Aunt Clara impromptu " Bewitched"?

Cherae Stone's avatar

Aunt Clara was adorable!!! Fabulous acting.

Sher''s avatar

😊 I always thought so too..

Sher''s avatar

I confess that I sometimes have to check my phone in the morning to see what day it is.... 😅

CJ Bair's avatar

Haha… Yes. I do the same thing.

Sher''s avatar

Oh brother!!! Egg on my face 😋 😆😅🤣😎😎😎...

Sher''s avatar

As it turn ms out..it's ME that missed something... 😁😆😅🤣

Susan's avatar

It’s not hard to do these days 🤣

Sher''s avatar

Either way…I didn't and/or..I'm not gonna…😁

Joni's avatar

Jack, thanks for watching so I don’t have to. I’ll read your your post analysis tomorrow. Bet you are spot on.

Jack Hopkins's avatar

Joni...you're welcome. You do something pleasant...instead, and compared to that...watching paint dry would be pleasant;)

-Jack

Sue P's avatar

I don't know, Jack. It was somewhat entertaining to watch the paint on the reflecting pool disintegrate.

HKJANE's avatar

File the date: July 16, 2026, twelve hours before a president stands in front of television cameras to tell the country that a foreign power altered the trust it places in its own ballots. Authoritarian regimes do not usually announce their revisions to history in advance. This one did, and that is the detail worth sitting with before the speech itself arrives. Jack is correct that the denial preceding the speech was not a denial. Note which word the White House chose. Not false. Not untrue. Speculating. A government that wanted a story killed would kill it. A government that wanted a story primed would say exactly what was said Wednesday, and then invite the cabinet’s intelligence chiefs to sit in the room as furniture while the theater plays out.

Note which document does the actual work here, and which document does not. The April 2020 memo describes a foreign intelligence service doing what foreign intelligence services have done to every democracy since data became legible: reading the room using material anyone could request from a county clerk. The March 2021 assessment, arrived at with high confidence, found no attempt to alter what a voter registers, casts, or what a machine counts. Both documents exist. Only one will be read aloud tonight. This is not new. Regimes that wish to rewrite an election’s memory have always been selective librarians, pulling one file and leaving the shelf otherwise undisturbed, counting on an audience that will not check which book is missing.

File the date again: January 7, 2021. This is the day Trump’s own director of national intelligence made his complaint publicly, on the record, into a working press corps. A concealment cannot be un-concealed five and a half years after its author announced it from a podium. Jack is correct on this point as well: you cannot hide what a man told reporters himself. But note what is being asked of the audience tonight is not that they learn a fact. It is that they forget a timeline, and forgetting a timeline while the participants are all still alive and quotable is a much harder trick than forgetting one after the witnesses are gone. That it is being attempted anyway tells you something about what the operation believes its audience will and will not check.

Note which number appears in this speech, and which does not. A regime asserting fraud produces a count: this many records, from this state, altered in this way. A regime asserting the feeling of fraud produces adjectives. Historians who have watched election-legitimacy campaigns in Hungary, in Poland, in Russia’s own telling of its neighbors’ elections, recognize the pattern before the vocabulary changes: the claim arrives at maximum volume and minimum verifiability, calibrated for repetition rather than survival under cross-examination. Watch whether Thursday night produces a number. The absence will be the finding.

File the date a third time: roughly one hundred and ten days remain before a midterm election in which the president’s own party has asked him to discuss the cost of living, and he has instead chosen to discuss an election that ended five years ago. This is not an aside. The timing of a legitimacy narrative is rarely accidental in any country that has run this play before; it arrives when the incumbent needs a subject other than the present. Note which subject was declined and which was chosen.

#HOLDFAST

Jack Hopkins's avatar

Jane...the test you propose is the right one...and it's FALSIFIABLE...which is more than the speech will be.

A fraud claim produces a count. An atmosphere...produces ADJECTIVES. Watch for a number tonight...a state...a quantity...a method...and note what fills the space...if none arrives.

The selective-librarian line is the keeper!

Both documents exist. One gets read aloud.

Thanks for writing this out, Jane!

#HOLDFAST

-Jack

James Aldridge's avatar

Same bullshit, different day...another step towards the inevitable...

Jack Hopkins's avatar

"Same bullshit, different day"...I think that about covers it, James.

-Jack

Sue P's avatar

...another step towards the inevitable end of trump's fascist plans to destroy America.

Pamela H's avatar

Scene is February 2003. Colin Powell gives a speech to the UN Security Council on evidence of WMD. CIA chief in audience. Everyone is supposed to be scared but international analytical minds remain skeptical. US congress passes authorization for military force against Iraq based on this scary briefing. The outcome is catastrophic. We’re still feeling it and paying for it. A heavily orchestrated speech, later admittedly deficient in proof of the subject. It sounds like a similar pattern in what Jack describes for this coming speech. Heavy on theatrics to scare everyone including pundits. Let’s guard ourselves like Jack recommends.

Jack Hopkins's avatar

Pamela...the parallel holds...and the staging detail is the right one.

George Tenet sat behind Powell's shoulder...IN frame, on PURPOSE. Not to speak...to be SEEN. The Director of Central Intelligence as a visual aid...so the audience would conclude the professionals VOUCH for this.

Now...look at who's invited tonight. CIA. FBI. ODNI. DHS. SAME prop. SAME purpose.

One little thing that helps your argument: Congress passed the Iraq AUMF in October 2002...four months before Powell went to the UN. The vote was already banked. His job wasn't to persuade Congress. It was to SELL a decision...ALREADY made.

That's the shape here, too. The conclusion came FIRST. The documents are being assembled to FIT it.

#HoldFast

-Jack

BG Lund's avatar

I don’t think I can stand to listen to him. I will rely on others, like you, who will take that hit for the rest of us and debrief us later. Thank you for that!

Jack Hopkins's avatar

BG...that's not weakness. That's strategy...and it's the right one.

The live broadcast is NOT information...it's a delivery system.

It's built to get the EMOTION in...BEFORE the careful part of your mind SHOWS UP.

Reading it later...on a page...with the receipts next to it...is better intelligence...not worse. You lose the theater and keep the facts.

The theater was the ONLY thing they were actually selling...EVER.

So...no hit taken on my end. I'm not watching it the way you'd be watching it. I'm watching it the way you'd watch a magician...you've ALREADY seen do the trick.

I'll have it for you!

-Jack

BG Lund's avatar

I like thinking of it as a delivery system, whereby they’re delivering lies to the masses! It’s not information.

BG Lund's avatar

Thank you so, so much!!

Elisabeth's avatar

He is in the throes of narcissistic collapse - I expect everything he says to be a complete lie in service to propping up his deteriorating ego mask. In other words- I think you're correct. 😉

Jack Hopkins's avatar

Elisabeth...you're dead right about the mechanism: a man defending a story...rather than describing a world...will lie as needed; because the story is LOAD-BEARING.

Glad you're here!

-Jack

Kimberly McInerney's avatar

EVERYTHING that comes from this admin is PROJECTION! Elon figured out a way to fuck with elections and now they hold up a mirror.

Jack Hopkins's avatar

Kimberly...the projection PATTERN is real and worth naming; accuse the other side of exactly what you're doing...and you POISON THE WELL before anyone can use it on you.

This admin wears that pattern...the hell OUT.

-Jack

Jody Johnson's avatar

You were spot on!

Jack Hopkins's avatar

Jody...yeah. It's a damn shame, eh?

-Jack

Jody Johnson's avatar

It is, but keep the hard truths coming!

Deb's avatar

We are now, completely and fully, in mob boss territory! As we used to say at the office…. SSDD (same shit, different day) and this from a guy that cannot be bothered to actually freaking read and digest the daily briefing he’s given…..

I get it, you get it, the people reading this substack get it. My fear/concern…..?? The people that haven't figured all of this out just yet will take what he’s serving up and run with it.

I’ve seen so many comments of late about how Mamdami is going to destroy NYC with his socialism. Ummm, ok but the guy is barely in office and just now implementing things….. receipts? Same with comments on my local news stations website (granted it’s a cbs station owned by Sinclair so there’s that)…. People are freaking out about the socialism / communism, conflating the two and howling before the first blow even looks imminent. The US has done socialistic things for a long time….. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid anyone? Please y’all… get a clue!!

The level of reactivity and ignorance is absolutely staggering. And now….? t is trying to gin up anti-China sentiment under the guise of election interference? Whoo boy. Probably helps that it’s a communist country….. and absolutely yes to the voter registration data being available. I helped a friend and colleague who was running for city commission years ago with door knocking. I was a bit surprised by the info….. it was down to ‘likely D, likely R’ level if party affiliation was not known or stated! Friends….. I’m guessing we’d be shocked by our own dossier that’s been compiled by the government! Forget anything like the CIA or FBI…. just the plain Jane govt.

This whole thing tonight (for me) is kind of like Shakespeare…. I think it was The Tempest where the phrase ‘much ado about nothing’ was floated? I sincerely hope our fellow citizens catch on FAST!!! we need them.

Thank you, Jack!! Love pieces like this. 👍

Jack Hopkins's avatar

Deb...your door-knocking story is a GREAT story...and I don't want anyone skimming past it.

You held the file. You saw it go down to "likely D, likely R" on people who never registered with a party. And...you got it...because you were helping a friend run for city commission...NOT because you were a foreign intelligence service.

That's the whole ballgame. Tonight...the country gets told China got something. You ALREADY know what it is. You had it in your hand...on a clipboard.

That's not classified. That's a TUESDAY.

Small note: Much Ado About Nothing is its own play...NOT a line from The Tempest. But keep the instinct...right title for tonight...either way.

Your fear about the people who haven't caught on...is a very valid concern. They won't be argued out of it. Nobody ever is. What works...is EXACTLY what you just did: a person they KNOW...telling a true story from their own life...no lecture attached.

Tell the clipboard story...to someone who isn't already in this comment section. That's worth more than anything I can publish!

#HoldFast

-Jack

Deb's avatar

Ooops, thanks for the correction on the Shakespeare. I have to confess that I nerd out about a lot of things….. but… theater has never been one of them for some reason…. 🤓

On the info publicly available… I didn’t know until your article that it is. I thought that my friend had the info as something that was likely provided by the local Democratic Party as part of her candidacy. It was definitely eye opening!

As a P.S. My friend went on to become a State Representative and is now running for the State Senate. She’s good and I’m excited for her!

Thanks, Jack!

Teri Gelini's avatar

Jack I do not watch commercial TV news since became owned by the government . I do not have a stomach for it. I also can not log at that man. I get nauseated looking at his anus mouth and piggy eyes and that what ever it is on his head. His voice grates on me. SO thank you for watching for most of us. Most of what you listed I have read before or heard others on substack report it. It is ridiculous to keep beating the dead horse. i think a lot of voters on both sides are more concerned about their ability to continue to work, feed their families and keep their homes...I remember the last time this happened and jobs were lost and people could not pay their mortgages and became homeless. I will look forward to your analysis comparison.

#HOLDFAST

Teri

Alexa Russell's avatar

Criminal B. S. (CBS) brought to you by ‘the bought and paid for by Ellison and Co.’ bending the knee for more money than a small country can spend boils my blood. Trust is broken, this we know, so, watch with open eyes, listen with open ears and remember you can be part of the solution.

This reality show is older than parasitic dirt, not worth emulating and must be replaced.

The blather of Idiocracy is a turn off and is meant to be a turn off. Neilson wants ratings, pundits want statistics and we the people want positive change. Paying attention is key, and ‘they’ do not want you to pay attention. Do the hardest thing first.

Responsibility isn’t part of this theater yet we must read between the lines, get our heads out of the sand and activate those willing to pull up those boot straps and get ‘er done. There is a reward waiting when ‘he’ is voted out so until then, keep paying attention, sow the good seed, let what is left of our clean water help seeds grow and help each other get through this mess. The cleanup will be challenging but when accomplished the reward will be worth it.

This will not silence me however, I am very careful about who I speak to about political ambitions these days. This playbook is a distraction protection from the real truth about who actually pulls the puppet strings and who murdered the head of snake pedophilia mob. As sickening as this is I refuse to be ill, (health is our only true wealth) and I will pay attention to this backwards puzzle of ‘playing pretend this didn’t happen’ rhetoric. I’m with you Jack.

Looking forward to the next chapter. Thank you. Steady as we go.

Steven Erick's avatar

Everything he says tonight including his gaffs will be designed to generate a lack of confidence ion the voting process and fear that the "government" (read Trump's private Gestapo (ICE)) will be on site to "protect your vote". He will tell the truth exactly once tonight. Be on the lookout for it, because it will be hard ti find.

Sue P's avatar

Thanks, Jack.

Only thing you missed in your prenatal analysis is the ballroom and bunker. There is no way he won't wander down his favorite path, or several of them. If he doesn't, I owe you a beer.

Sue