00:00:01.000On this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, I spend this whole episode on one article, The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election by Molly Ball, a time.com article that is so stunning that even in this whole episode, I felt like I could have gone an extra hour.
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00:02:49.000What if I told you that instead of conservatives and journalists having to go through months and years of investigation of what exactly happened in November and the months leading to it?
00:03:06.000What if I told you all that work was done for us?
00:03:10.000What if I told you that the people that were behind an orchestrated effort for a desired result in November have now publicly admitted and detailed their efforts?
00:03:30.000This story was almost too stunning to comprehend after four times of reading it.
00:03:40.000And it's not even that the details are that stunning.
00:03:43.000It's the brazen cockiness that they published this story with.
00:03:52.000The almost Unprecedented double standard it takes to write a story like this.
00:04:02.000And it says by Molly Ball from Time magazine.
00:04:05.000See, I didn't know Time really did much writing anymore, which is exactly probably why they decided to do it in Time magazine because they could get written exactly what they want written because Time would want the clicks and Time would want the mentions, so they were probably more open to writing the story they wanted to have written.
00:04:51.000I want to go back in the time machine before I even go back, go into this article.
00:04:55.000Do you remember when there were thousands of articles written specifically by the New Yorker about dark money, shadow operations, secret clandestine efforts, possibly dealing with Russia?
00:05:13.000The article starts by talking about how after Election Day, there were no protests in the streets.
00:05:20.000I started reading this article, and the C-word started to creep into thought.
00:05:32.000And then Molly Ball says it for me in about the seventh paragraph.
00:05:41.000There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes.
00:05:46.000One that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs.
00:05:53.000It goes on to say that a pact was formalized in a terse, little notice joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who I think we went through in great detail this week, and the AFL-CIO, which is a public sector union.
00:06:08.000Private unions I have no issue with generally, as long as people have freedom to choose to associate public sector unions, I'm a harsh critic of.
00:06:21.000Both sides would come to see as sort of an implicit bargain inspired by the summer's massive, sometimes destructive racial justice protest.
00:06:35.000In what forces of labor and what forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep peace and oppose Trump's assault on democracy.
00:06:46.000So let's go back to this sentence here.
00:07:04.000Now, I'm going to walk through this 25-page article in great detail because it admits, and it says here, through never-before-seen documents, interviews with dozens of those involved across the political spectrum, access to the inner workings.
00:07:24.000It is the story of an unprecedented, creative, and determined campaign whose success reveals how close the nation came to disaster, aka Trump winning.
00:07:35.000And what's so incredible about this article is how all of this had nothing to do with persuasion.
00:07:47.000This is a 25-page document that involves billions of dollars of resources.
00:07:52.000The most powerful people on the planet openly admitting that they worked in collusion and conspiracy with each other for a desired objective and goal.
00:08:26.000The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast cross-partisan campaign to protect the election, which is code for defeating Trump.
00:08:35.000An extraordinary shadow effort dedicated to not winning the vote, but ensuring it would be fair, free, credible, and uncorrupted.
00:08:47.000The scenario the shadow campaigners were desperate to stop was not necessarily a Trump victory.
00:08:53.000It was an election so calamitous that no result could be discerned at all.
00:08:58.000A failure of the central act of democrat self-governance that has been the hallmark of America since its founding.
00:09:03.000So the thesis statement as this begins is that it wasn't really about defeating Trump.
00:09:07.000It was just about defeating Trump's desired objective by us getting involved and changing the way we do elections in our country totally completely, but more than just elections.
00:09:17.000In this document, they detail how they prevented protests from happening, about how they used the threat of the deployment of protests.
00:09:29.000In this piece, it talks about hundreds of millions of dollars being spent by Zuckerberg for a very specific purpose.
00:09:37.000In this article, it talks about how, behind the scenes, while we were worried about Trump's approval rating and polls in Battleground States, when we were worried about voter registration numbers, when we were worried about whether or not President Trump was actually managing the Chinese coronavirus, what were they doing?
00:09:56.000They were at Mark Zuckerberg's home demanding certain accounts get shut down.
00:10:13.000This is Time magazine that says they are shadow campaigners.
00:10:18.000Again, typically that's a pejorative when you're dealing with representative government.
00:10:24.000Who wants to be known as a shadow campaigner?
00:10:31.000Their work touched every aspect of the election.
00:10:34.000The shadow campaigners got states to change their voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions of dollars in public and private funding.
00:10:46.000They fended off voter suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers, and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time.
00:10:53.000They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation, told you, and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears.
00:11:04.000Norm Eisen, who we mentioned on a podcast with Darren Beattie, you might know that name when we are warning against a color revolution, said, quote, the untold story of the election is thousands of people of both parties who accomplished the triumph of American democracy at its very foundation.
00:11:21.000When Trump won in 2016, that was an assault on democracy.
00:11:26.000But when Joe Biden wins after a week of shenanigans, nonsense, tomfoolery, and interference from your conspiracy, that's a win for democracy.
00:11:35.000When they say that, it's code for our guy won, your guy lost.
00:11:55.000They wrote the book that shows what they did.
00:11:58.000And I'm telling you, everybody, listen very carefully to stuff we're about to go through because this is about to be some incredibly revealing information.
00:12:09.000This piece is the most in-depth and detailed article I have read with inside sources and document review about what happened in the 2020 election from the Democrat side.
00:12:26.000They call themselves the Democracy Campaigners.
00:12:33.000Former GOP representative Zach Womp said, quote, we can look back and say things went pretty well, but it was not all clear in September and October that that was going to be the case.
00:12:50.000This is the inside story of the conspiracy to save the 2020 election, based on access to groups, inner workings, never before seen documents, interviews with dozens of those involved across the political spectrum.
00:13:04.000If you want to stop people in believing in QAnon conspiracy theories, stop admitting that there are conspiracies on the left.
00:13:17.000I mean, what do you think people are going to think when they read this?
00:13:21.000Like, I told you, they're admitting that there was a conspiracy.
00:13:24.000They use that word time and time again.
00:13:29.000You remember when conspiracy was a way of attacking the other side?
00:13:35.000I had to pull this from the memory bank.
00:13:37.000Remember when Hillary Clinton said this back during the Clinton impeachment trial playtape?
00:13:42.000The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.
00:13:56.000I remember when conspiracy was a bad word to use.
00:13:59.000Now, it's how we describe, what do they call themselves?
00:14:04.000They call themselves the Avengers or something.
00:14:37.000Ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage, and control the flow of information.
00:14:48.000Trust us, they were not rigging the election.
00:16:44.000A well-funded cabal of powerful people ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage, and control the flow of information.
00:16:59.000This reads like a February 2017 New York Times piece when they did a diagnostic report on the NRA and Cambridge Analytica and Paul Manafort and Roger Stone and Vladimir Putin.
00:17:13.000Instead, it gets written about positively.
00:18:16.000I'm going to tell you why I don't like this guy.
00:18:18.000Not because he works for the FL-CIO, not because he tried to create a conspiracy, which is literally what Time magazine calls it, but for a different reason.
00:19:01.000Now, speaking of tactics, the reason why I don't like this guy is it says, quote, Podhorzer applies that approach to everything.
00:19:10.000When he coached his now adult son's Little League team in DC, he trained the boys not to swing at most pitches, a tactic that infuriated both their opponents, parents, but won the team a series of championships.
00:19:23.000Okay, this is everything wrong with America.
00:19:26.000As parents that teach their eight, nine, and 10-year-old kids not to swing.
00:19:31.000Okay, here's why it bothers me so much.
00:20:46.000Anyway, that really bothered me, okay?
00:20:51.000It continues by saying that Trump's election in 2016 is credited in part to his unusual strength amongst the sort of blue-collar white voters who once dominated the AFL-CIO.
00:22:01.000It continues by going to say, in April, Podhorzer began hosting two and a half hour weekly Zoom meetings.
00:22:09.000It was structured around a series of rapid-fire five-minute presentations on everything from which ads were working to messaging to legal strategy.
00:22:17.000It continued to say that, quote, at the risk of talking trash about the left, that's not a lot of good information sharing.
00:22:24.000There's a lot of not yet invented here syndrome where people won't consider a good idea if they didn't come up with it.
00:22:31.000The meetings became, this is a ridiculous way to describe it, a galactic center for a constellation of operatives.
00:22:37.000Like be a little bit more dramatic, Molly Ball, okay?
00:22:40.000Yes, and then they all boarded the Starship Enterprise and traveled at the speed of light until democracy was saved.
00:22:46.000They went backwards in time like Superman, and together we're all able to enjoy a Biden presidency.
00:22:51.000Okay, it's a little bit more dramatic.
00:22:54.000The group had no name, no leaders, and no hierarchy.
00:22:56.000Yeah, it sounds like the Paris Commune.
00:22:58.000It sounds so wonderfully communistically egalitarian.
00:23:03.000But it kept the distance, actors, in sync.
00:23:05.000Quote, Pod played a critical role behind the scenes in keeping different pieces.
00:23:10.000That's who they called Podrozer, of the movement, infrastructure, and communication and aligned.
00:23:15.000You have the litigation space, you have the organizing space, the political people just focused on the W and their strategies aren't always aligned.
00:24:51.000The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative chipped in $300 million.
00:24:56.000We've been through this, the Center for Technology and Civic Life.
00:25:00.000Quote, it was a failure at the federal level that 2,500 local election officials were forced to apply for philanthropic grants to fill their needs, says Amber McReynolds, a former Denver election official who heads the nonpartisan National Vote at Home Institute.
00:25:15.000That's right, National Vote at Home Institute, which Jimmy Carter's own coalition shows that vote by mail is the most susceptible for fraud.
00:25:22.000Her whole organization, funded by big tech centi-billionaires, not just billionaires, but they're worth $100 billion, centi-billionaires, are to make people vote at home.
00:25:35.000McReynolds' two-year organization became a clearinghouse for a nation struggling to adapt.
00:25:42.000With all of these hundreds of millions of dollars, the Institute gave secretaries of state from local parties technical advice on everything from which vendors to use to how to locate drop boxes.
00:25:52.000Local officials are the most trusted sources of election information, but few can afford a press secretary.
00:25:56.000So the Institute distributed communication toolkits.
00:25:59.000Basically, private money came into public elections and started to dictate the way elections should be done.
00:26:05.000Unconstitutional outside of state legislatures, outside of the consent of the local governed.
00:26:12.000And we did not know a lot of this was happening in real time.
00:26:16.000Where was the Republican infrastructure calling this out?
00:26:20.000Where were the people that are dedicated to building secure and stable elections on our side?
00:26:27.000And the answer is that we were too busy running network television ads, I guess.
00:26:37.000Because we thought that was the way elections were won.
00:26:39.000Meanwhile, Podroser, the guy that teaches kids not to swing and just win championships by getting walks, basically that told us they wanted to game the system.
00:26:51.000They wanted to use whatever apparatus they could to get to their achieved desired outcome.
00:27:00.000The Institute helped 37 states and Washington, D.C. bolster mail and voting.
00:27:05.000But it wouldn't be worth much if people didn't take advantage.
00:27:09.000Each state had different rules for when and how ballots should be requested and returned.
00:27:13.000The Voter Participation Center, which in a normal year would have deployed canvasers door to door, instead conducted focus groups to find out how people would get to vote by mail.
00:27:21.000Quote, all the work we've done for 17 years was built for this moment of bringing democracy to people's doorsteps, the Vote by Mail National Home Institute said.
00:27:34.000Hannah Freed said, quote, we had to get the message out.
00:27:37.000This is safe, reliable, and you can trust it.
00:27:45.000So you had all these liberal groups working in concert together, forming a conspiracy to their own admission.
00:27:56.000You had hundreds of millions of dollars from tech companies coming in.
00:27:59.000You had the way that elections were done actually changed.
00:28:01.000You had the Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO getting into total and complete handshake agreement with what needs to happen, but didn't stop there, actually.
00:28:12.000They started filing lawsuits, pre-election litigation, to allow vote by mail to go with looser signature verification standards, to allow new voter registrations to go unchallenged from the Brennan Center of Justice at NYU.
00:28:28.000In the end, nearly half the electorate cast ballots by mail in 2020.
00:28:37.000While we as conservatives and Republicans were worrying about, I don't know what, Democrats said to our, said, how do we get the electorate to vote by mail?
00:29:33.000Now, this is blowing up on social media.
00:29:35.000So it says, quote, bad actors spreading false information is nothing new.
00:29:39.000For decades, campaigns have grappled with everything from anonymous calls claiming the election has been rescheduled to flyers spreading nasty smears about the candidates' families.
00:29:47.000But Trump's lies and conspiracy theories, the viral force of social media and involvement of foreign meddlers, made disinformation a broader, deeper threat to the 2020 vote.
00:29:57.000The most important takeaway from Laura Quinn's research, who's a veteran progressive operative who co-founded Catalyst, said, quote, when you get attacked, the instinct is to push back, call it out, and say this isn't true.
00:30:09.000But the more engagement something gets, the more the platform boosts it.
00:30:14.000The algorithm reads that as, oh, this is popular.
00:30:35.000In November of 2019, Mark Zuckerberg invited nine civil rights leaders to dinner at his home.
00:30:42.000Quote, it took pushing, urging conversations, brainstorming, all of that to get to a place where we ended up with a more rigorous rules and enforcement.
00:30:48.000Vanita Gupta, the CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said.
00:31:03.000But it was really important, given the level of official disinformation, that they had rules in place and tagging things and taking them down.
00:31:45.000Whereas liberals will go in and meet with Zuckerberg and say, if you do not do something about disinformation, we will be relentless in our boycott of you.
00:31:58.000And so while we were worried about placing Facebook ads to get Donald Trump reelected, Democrat activist advocacy groups weren't worried about Facebook advertisement.
00:32:08.000They were instead worried about Facebook interference.
00:33:41.000This is glorifying in a positive narrative light, powerful people changing the way our country is run because you don't actually know how bad Trump is.
00:33:54.000Basically, that's the thesis of this entire article.
00:33:57.000It goes through chapter and chapter of disinformation defense of how this group went to the tech companies and demanded they take down conservative voices.
00:34:07.000It goes down to spreading the word, which is where we'll pick up on this by Molly Ball at Time magazine.
00:34:17.000Beyond battling bad information, there is a need to expand a rapidly changing election process.
00:34:23.000It was crucial for voters to understand that despite what Trump was saying, mail and votes weren't susceptible to fraud.
00:34:27.000And that it would be normal if some states weren't finished counting votes on election night.
00:34:32.000The Voting Rights Lab and Into Action created state-specific memes and graphics spread by email, text, Twitter, Facebook, or TikTok, urging every vote to be counted.
00:34:43.000Now, what's stunning, this was $20 million put behind this effort.
00:34:48.000Dick Gephardt raised $20 million from his, quote, contacts in the private sector.
00:34:55.000$20 million for an advocacy campaign to tell people to be patient that votes are going to take a long time to count.
00:35:31.000I'm instead saying, don't be surprised when all of a sudden you have a legitimate conspiracy that's written about in positive terms about, again, I'm going to read this.
00:35:57.000Want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream, a well-funded cabal of powerful people ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change the rule of laws, steer media coverage, and control the flow of information.
00:36:24.000The Alliance took a common set of themes from the research Shanker Osorio presented at Podhorser's Zooms.
00:36:30.000Remember, Podhorser is the guy that teaches his kids not to swing when they're nine-year-olds in Little League.
00:36:39.000When you say, quote, these claims are fraud of fraud are spurious, what people hear is fraud.
00:36:45.000But we saw in our pre-election research that anything that reaffirmed Trump's power, cast him as an authoritarian, diminished people's desire to vote.
00:36:56.000The racial justice uprising sparked by George Floyd's killing in May was not primarily a political movement.
00:37:02.000The organizers who helped lead it wanted to harness its momentum for the election without allowing it to be co-opted by politicians.
00:37:07.000Many of the organizers were part of Podhorser's network from the activists in Battleground States who partnered with the Democracy Defense Coalition to organize with leading roles in the movement for black lives.
00:37:19.000We knew that the BLM Incorporated movement was going to be used against Trump.
00:37:25.000What we didn't know is that more than 150 liberal groups joined together from Sierra Club to Color of Change to Women's March to the Democrat Socialists of America to the Protect the Results Coalition.
00:37:41.000400 planned post-election demonstrations were possibly going to happen to be activated via text message as soon as November 4th to stop the coup they feared.
00:37:52.000The left was ready to flood the streets.
00:37:55.000So basically what this admits is that at a moment's notice, through an artificial AstroTurf, billionaire-funded Chamber of Commerce constructed program, millions of people could flood to the streets at a moment's notice.
00:38:10.000But we're supposed to believe it's all organic.
00:38:21.000The Chamber of Commerce, which represents open borders, big tech dominance, and is really the Chamber of China, made great friends with the AFL-CIO because Donald Trump was a threat to both the AFL-CIO because he was actually winning over their membership at great disgust of their leaders, and the Chamber of Commerce is very upset that we have better trade deals, our borders were secure, and American workers finally had a voice.
00:38:47.000However, the leadership of the Chamber of Commerce and the leadership of the AFL-CIO are actually very similar.
00:38:52.000They're ruling class people that pretend to represent the needs, wants, and interests of normal people.
00:38:59.000They sent a, quote, broader and bipartisan message.
00:39:03.000They chose their words carefully and scheduled the statement's release for maximum impact.
00:39:09.000The groups added, although we might disagree on desired outcomes up and down the ballot, we are unified in our call for American democratic process to proceed without violence, intimidation, or any other tactics that make us look weaker as a nation.
00:39:21.000The next chapter, showing up, standing down.
00:39:24.000Election night began with many Democrats despairing.
00:39:28.000Trump was running ahead of pre-election polling, winning Florida, Ohio, and Texas easily and keeping Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania too close to call.
00:39:35.000But Podhorzer, no, no, no, he was unperturbed.
00:39:38.000When I spoke to him that night, the results were exactly in line with his modeling.
00:40:24.000Protect the results announced that it quote not be activating the entire National Mobilization Network today, but remains ready to activate if necessary.
00:40:32.000Podhorzer credits the activists for their restraint.
00:40:36.000Wednesday through Friday, there was not a single Antifa versus Proud Boys incident like everyone was expecting.
00:40:41.000And when that didn't materialize, I don't think the Trump campaign had a backup plan.
00:40:45.000It's ridiculous to say that, as if the Trump campaign wanted some sort of confrontation.
00:40:51.000Activists, though, reoriented the Protect the Results protest towards a weekend of celebration.
00:40:56.000Now, to credit these guys, to credit Podhorzer and all these guys, it was very smart.
00:41:00.000Go celebrate, and it's hard to retract public opinion after you're celebrating in the streets.
00:41:05.000Once you declare victory and the media goes alongside it, it feels as if the race is over and everything you're trying to do is to undo an election, even though votes are still being counted, even though things are still being figured out in the courts.
00:42:36.000If Chatfield and Shirky, which are the two GOP leaders in Michigan, agreed to do Trump's bidding, which is just voter integrity, Republicans in other states might be similarly bullied.
00:42:50.000Quote, I was concerned things were going to get weird.
00:42:53.000Describe it as the scariest moment of the entire election.
00:42:56.000Guys, there was a moment when the left was worried that a widespread investigation might actually clarify what ended up happening.
00:43:06.000What this article is telling you is that the state legislatures had the power all along and they refused to use it.
00:43:14.000That's what the liberals are admitting that they were on defense for a moment.
00:43:21.000But the democracy defenders, that's what they call themselves, the Avengers, the nice people, the wonderful people that the powerful people that saved our country, thank you, launched a full court press, protect democracy's local context, researched lawmakers' personal and political motives.
00:43:37.000Okay, so they ran opposition research immediately.
00:43:42.000The Chambers Bradley kept close tabs on the process.
00:43:45.000Wamp, the former Republican congressman, called his former colleague Mike Rogers and wrote an op-ed for the Detroit newspapers urging officials to honor the will of the voters, even though we don't know what the will of the voters are, because there's no investigation.
00:43:56.000You mean the will of the Biden campaign.
00:44:00.000Three former Michigan governors, John Engler, Rick Snyder, and Democrat Jennifer Granholm, jointly called the Michigan electoral votes to be cast free of pressure from the White House.
00:44:12.000Well, the pro-democracy forces, what unbelievably deceiving framing, Time magazine.
00:44:17.000The pro-democracy forces, basically the good guys, were up against a Trump, Trumpified Michigan GOP, controlled by allies of Ronna McDaniel, Betsy DeVos, and a member of a billionaire family of GOP donors.
00:45:09.000Richard Primus was then contacted by Basson, a law professor at University of Michigan, to see if Primus agreed and would make the argument publicly.
00:45:17.000Primus said he thought the meeting itself was inappropriate, and he got to work on an op-ed for Politico.
00:45:22.000You had an activist that called through their tickler file, go through their little tickler.
00:45:27.000Again, if you don't know a tickler file, it's just an old expression for a Rolodex, okay?
00:45:31.000Goes through it and finds a professor, contacts the professor without the professor actually being interested in the story, and activates the professor who has a lot of credibility to then go write the op-ed to go confirm their political narrative.
00:45:48.000That's called a conspiracy, because Time magazine calls it.
00:45:51.000So you have a professor who's at University of Michigan who's obviously liberal with a lot of credentials, then who gets contacted by an activist, says, hey, do you agree with this?
00:46:05.000We'll get on the front page really quickly.
00:46:09.000The piece posted on November 19th, the Attorney General's Communications Director tweeted it.
00:46:13.000So then they give it to the Michigan Attorney General to tweet the article from the Michigan professor to then say that these lawmakers might get bribed and they all might go to jail.
00:46:26.000But no evidence whatsoever to support any of this, by the way.
00:46:30.000Just like pure gaslighting conjecture.
00:46:36.000The attorney general tweets it out, but it gets worse than that.
00:46:39.000Rea's activists scanned flight schedules and flocked to airports on both ends of Shirky's journey to D.C.
00:46:46.000I don't even think that's legal, first of all, okay?
00:46:49.000To underscore that the lawmakers were being scrutinized.
00:46:52.000After the meeting, the pair announced they pressed the president to deliver COVID relief for their constituents and informed them they saw no role in the election process.
00:47:00.000They then went for a drink at the Trump Hotel, and a street artist projected their images onto the outside of the building along with the words, the world is watching.
00:47:08.000That only got inserted into the article because the cabal was in favor of that.
00:47:12.000My goodness, do we have a lot to learn from the left?
00:47:15.000And I say that non-sarcastically, tactically, strategically.
00:47:19.000The moment that we started the call for state legislators to get involved in the election integrity process, what happened?
00:48:25.000The secret history of the shadow campaign that saved the 2020 election.
00:48:30.000The cabal of interests that came together in an unprecedented, creative, and determined campaign to save democracy, as we know it.
00:48:43.000The one last step, the state canvassing board made up of two Democrats and two Republicans, one Republican, a Trumper.
00:48:50.000That's how they describe Americans, a Trumper.
00:48:54.000That's in Time magazine, the word Trumper, not Trump supporter, not someone who voted for Trump, not Republican, but this one Republican, a Trumper employed by the DeVos's family political nonprofit.
00:49:09.000This guy's entire life is now just being called a Trumper.
00:49:14.000Don't try to tell me that's not meant to try to be a pejorative.
00:49:17.000When the meeting began, Reyes' activists flooded the live stream and filled Twitter with their hashtag, quote, all eyes on MI, all eyes on Michigan.
00:49:27.000A board accustomed to attendance in the single digits, suddenly faced an audience of thousands.
00:49:32.000In hours of testimony, the activists emphasized their message of respecting voters' wishes and affirming democracy rather than scolding the officials.
00:49:39.000I thought that tech companies had rules against mass mobilization of coordinated messaging.
00:49:44.000Tech companies seem to not like that when conservatives do that.
00:49:49.000Tech companies actually have banned conservative accounts for massive mobilization of unified messaging.
00:50:21.000Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, the rest of the state certified their electors.
00:50:24.000Republican officials in Arizona and Georgia stood up to Trump's bullying, and the Electoral College voted on the scheduled day of December 14th.
00:50:32.000The final chapter of how the powerful people saved our country.
00:51:25.000Left-wing activists are pressuring the newly empowered Democrats to remember the voters who put them there, while civil rights groups are on a guard against further attacks on voting.
00:51:34.000Business leaders denounce the January 6th attack, and some say they'll no longer donate to lawmakers who refers to certify Biden's victory.
00:51:40.000Podhorser and his allies are still holding their Zoom strategy sessions, gauging voters' views, and developing new messages.
00:51:47.000That's the biggest takeaway of this whole article.
00:51:50.000This is not written looking historically.
00:52:10.000They have cracked the code in their mind.
00:52:13.000Ah, we control every institution: academia, attorney general's offices, the civil service, the bureaucracies, the corporations, the media, the tech companies.
00:52:25.000Now let's use them and make America in our image.
00:52:36.000To not actually ever be interested in governing, but under the camouflage, under the disguise, under the vapor, under the mirage of protecting democracy.
00:52:55.000They are going to continue to bully companies.
00:52:58.000They're going to continue to pressure social media companies.
00:53:02.000They're going to continue to try to change the way we do elections to keep themselves permanently in power.
00:53:29.000Number one, the left is just now realizing how much power they really have over us.
00:53:37.000I think they're still learning how to use that power.
00:53:43.000Number two, the left is willing at almost all costs to sacrifice truth for power.
00:53:53.000Number three, persuasion means very little when the other side is actually concerned of how the election is going to be conducted.
00:54:02.000You know, we joked around throughout the last couple, the first couple weeks after early November, after the election, we said it doesn't matter how people vote.
00:54:27.000Not just what people think, but actually how the votes are counted.
00:54:31.000Winning the certification, winning the Electoral College, and winning the transition.
00:54:37.000This is now going to be how they will handle every single election from this point forward.
00:54:46.000Vote by mail is here whether we like it or not.
00:54:49.000We have to push back against HR1 at all costs.
00:54:52.000They're going to try to make nationwide vote by mail the new standard and the new norm.
00:55:00.000We're still worried about political strategy and all that sort of stuff.
00:55:05.000While they are now focused on raising hundreds of millions of dollars from the private sector for corporations, which is nothing more than pseudo-extortion, to change the way elections are done, to supplement local and state election protocols, and to say that anyone that dares say that if you should not be able to vote by mail on MAS, then you actually hate the country and you're a racist.
00:55:27.000This, as Time magazine calls it, the unprecedented, creative, and determined campaign is now going to become a pattern.
00:55:55.000The real reason is that this article is only about 10% of the story.
00:56:01.000The real reason is that they're trying to set the narrative early, trying to admit that there was a clandestine aspect of it, take the little bit of the mockery and the hit from the right, and move on.
00:56:15.000This was written by Molly Ball and Leslie Dickenstein, Maria Espada, and Simone Shah.
00:56:21.000What I'm saying here is that the people behind this are worried that if they don't tell the story, somebody else will.
00:56:31.000The people behind this, from Pod Horror to Reyes to the social media people, there's more to this than just this Time magazine.
00:56:43.000There's a lot more to voting practices, to communications, to flow of information, to how this was not about protecting democracy, it was about destroying Trump.
00:56:55.000And I guarantee you that text messages, emails, documents illustrate that boldly and clearly.
00:57:02.000What this is right here is no different than Andrew McCabe writing his book before other people were able to tell his story for him.
00:57:13.000It is a common tactic by the left where you do something shadowy, shadow campaign.
00:57:22.000And it's a PR strategy that is employed only if you own the instruments of communication.
00:57:28.000It's a PR strategy that only works if you have complete control over almost every single sentence and paragraph.
00:57:35.000The PR strategy is this: don't admit fault, but expose the potential attack against you, which then invalidates the future criticism and pose yourself as the hero where the ends justified the means, and therefore people will protect you.
00:57:59.000So, for Pod Drozer here, yeah, Podhorser, he might be a little worried that some of the activity that he was coordinating might not look very good when the entire story is actually told.
00:58:40.000But if you tell the story the way we want you to tell it, people will actually get behind it because we're actually the secret society that saved America.
00:58:51.000This is only more reason to investigate.
00:58:55.000This document is not the end of the conversation.
00:59:21.000Because they're worried there might be something that might be found out that won't fit their preferred narrative.
00:59:27.000Speaking of typical liberal PR strategies, whenever they come under fire or accusation, immediately the entire left-wing infrastructure from the media to academia comes in and protects their own.
00:59:39.000That's what Peter happened to Peter Strzok, gets a job at Georgetown Law.
01:00:22.000He's going to be audited every single year for the rest of his life.
01:00:25.000And he's going to have the entire full weight of the government come after him in every way, shape, or form.
01:00:30.000But Hunter Biden, as it came out that he was under investigation for tax issues back in December, all of a sudden now he comes out with a memoir that says beautiful things, a memoir by Hunter Biden.
01:00:46.000I wonder if he'll talk about the beautiful Chinese deals that he did with his father.
01:00:52.000That's the strategy left, and that's exactly the strategy that was in this article of Time magazine, the Secret History of the Shadow campaign that saved the 2020 election.
01:01:00.000They want to tell their story first before the facts actually come out and might look them a little less favorably.
01:02:07.000They're worried that as these state legislatures start looking into things, they're worried as more and more documents start to come to the surface that the story is not going to be told as glamorously as the democracy defending Avenger squad.
01:02:21.000They're worried that there might, and I don't want to speculate.
01:02:24.000I'm just saying there is no reason why they would grant this kind of access just to try to get credit.
01:02:30.000The only reason they would try to grant this kind of access and grant these kind of interviews is that there's a press liability that they're worried about.
01:02:39.000And I think this article spiraled out of control more than I think they would have wanted, where Molly Ball revealed the entire playbook of the Democrat technocratic left.
01:02:50.000Not about persuasion, not about polling, not about trying to change people's minds.
01:02:55.000Instead, it's how do we use the instruments of power to accomplish our goal?
01:03:31.000And what's going to be stunning about this is how the media will now categorize this.
01:03:35.000Either they're going to ignore it, or if my prediction is right, they are going to elevate the democracy defenders and put them on television.
01:03:45.000The crew of people that helped save the country from Trump's attempted coup d'état, which is all nonsense.
01:03:54.000This article right here shows that these investigations must continue.