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Brenda Streed's avatar

At first I was going to zip right by this article but I’m glad I didn’t. As a CISA I’ve been waiting to hear the „How“…where and how did the controls in the system fail. This article shows where your attention has been turned, it may not necessarily prove the election was rigged but it shines a light on preventing future problems. I have become a small monthly donor and willing to help in future as well.

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Grace's avatar

Hello Brenda,

Thank you so much for taking the time to read our article. Your monthly donation is so appreciated. We look forward to sharing more information with you in the future.

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Brenda Streed's avatar

Hi Grace - what should we consider doing with this related post? https://open.substack.com/pub/thiswillhold/p/she-won-they-didnt-just-change-the?r=3tiwm6&utm_medium=ios

Im not afraid to send to Congress but I’m wondering whether the authors have already tried?

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Brenda Streed's avatar

In the areas where statistical anomalies show up, is there a pattern of which software changes were applied and have those systems received changes since Nov 2024?

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Jeff Filipov's avatar

People like me and a lot of other Democrats I know didn’t want to say the words that the election was rigged because then we sound just like the Trump people when Biden won.

But I think that that’s part of their psychology.

They made it so that people didn’t want to say that or think that—so that if they actually did cheat this election we would still somehow want to believe they had not.

And you must remember that everything that Trump talks about or jests about eventually becomes something horrible that he does.

I cannot tell you if the election was rigged even if it feels that way. We all woke up and had to sadly accept the results and now we are fighting to try to change things for the better, but if the elections were rigged in anyway and anything we try to change will also never work. It will always look like it came close, but never go through. People wait for 2026 and the midterms, but this will result in nothing if these things are true. It’s blind hope.

In the meantime, people see a deterioration of everything the country stood for.

There are now just endless discussing displays of authoritarianism and pure distain for human life. The monsters that are in control of departments are liars and cheats, and they are bigots and racist as well, or worse. They advocate for pain and death and suffering, and the advocate for taking money and not carrying at all.

Their one single expertise is the ability to interrupt and deflect and ignore and never answer a direct question. They run down the clock and do nothing but give us slight moments of hope only to distract us again with something else.

What next? Well how about a war in Iran and then we can’t complain about whatever we did last week. This will never end.

I will say that when Trump said that if you elect him now you’ll never have to do it again, that I just thought that when he was elected, he would become a dictator and changed the laws. I didn’t think it’s because he was going to try to cheat this election.

But he already is becoming a dictator and trying to change the laws so whether he cheated or not won’t even matter soon. That’s because as long as he is here and as long as everything and everyone legitimizes him, then it doesn’t matter because they will soon come a day where just talking about this or having this stack won’t even be legal anymore, and everyone will blindly accept it.

The clock is running. I think the only thing that you can do is to continue to try to get the truth and find out if this actually happened and then somehow presented to the types of people who will take the kind of action we all want to take in our minds, but know that we should not take because we are not the Minnesota murderer.

Something drastic has to be done, however, and while the protests are good. We need a little bit more forthright and let’s say less aggressive activity than those events.

I mean, heck, even if he didn’t steal the election, you’ve already seen the horrific things that this party will do when they are in power. I would like to take drastic action just because of that, let alone uncovering, further cheating, and lying.

Of course, if there were a way to confirm all of this stuff, it would be even better, but who knows what would happen next. The whole thing is a powder keg and a pending civil war coupled with a pending world war because one man definitely needs to have power or else everyone must suffer. That will be the problem until he is gone.

He is a phenomenon just like the Beatles. Definitely a one off special character that has abilities to make people become in a huge cult. But the Beatles had screaming joyous fans but they were good. Phenomenons come around every half decade or so. This one is bad. If he were gone tomorrow we would still have a lot of problems to overcome and some big bad monsters to deal with that might even be smarter than Trump, but a lot of his base and a lot of his support would die with him. Because the phenomenon would be gone, and so what part of the following.

If he is gone, then we don’t have to worry about another phenomenon for a little while and maybe by then we will have new ways to control it before it gets out of hand. Get rid of this guy and part of the problem goes with him.

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Jeff Filipov's avatar

Concurrent to investigation of the election… people need to start to inconvenience themselves for a moment in order to make real change occur, because if we are not willing to, then we are ok with everything happening.

We need ten million people… all in one place. All at the same time.

Will these people inconvenience themselves to be there? Will it cost them time and money to be there? Absolutely.

But these things are already happening to us. Do we want to control them or do we want someone else to control them inevitably.

Why do we respond one step at a time passively? Why do we imagine our current efforts will do anything and why do we all secretly actually think the mid terms will save us? What if they don’t? Whether it be by rigging or tactical planning on the right to redraw districts or actual stronger voting results by maga who truly believe he is good and that ai companies and tech bros are ok, even if we know they have been lied to, we will NOT win the mid terms. They know we are hoping to so they have already got plans. Remember these people are all scammers. Thieves. They will kill or bully or cheat and also convince people to vote for them who do so the legal way but are already mentally compromised.

Why do we somehow believe any differently?

Firstly we have to gang up on magas. When one senator is grilling one of them, the interruption should come from ANOTHER dem senator asking the same thing. And another! Come in from more than one side! Attack not defend. Hit them like a swarm.

The people (all of us) need to stop weekends at home or going to work one day trying to ignore it and going to pilates classes…

And get in their cars and planes and trains and all agree to meet in Washington dc like now soon… all on the same fucking day and get wet or hot or in tents or hotels or in their cars or whatever and the entire fucking crowd needs to gather and march slowly on the white house and go in. Take the fucking house over. Walk in and occupy it.

Security and guns will happen. Hold the line. Do it. I will. We need ten million people all in one place.

We are going to die slowly the way we are doing it now or we are going to lose some heros but take this place back now.

What will it be!! Why do we slowly wait and go “ohhhh noooo i cant believe it!” We need actual action and force. Walk in as one huge fucking slow moving swarm of every day people.

Who do I go to to make this a thing? And why would anyone not think it’s a good idea!!!

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