Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and I have yet to see any. There is a lot of circumstantial evidence, and a lot of things that look odd, but I’ve seen nothing concrete yet.
deleted by creator
You can’t call your podcast Make It Plain with a cover photo like that.
Initially I thought it was an obscure game boy color screen title.
This reminds me of the voter suppression the duopoly does to keep third parties out and policy popular to the working class.
Sabby Sabs talks about this in her podcast.
Quick search:
Atlanta Dems Use Same Voter Suppression Measure They Sued Georgia for in 2019: Sabrina Salvati [14:10 | AUG 22 2023 | The Hill | https://youtu.be/w6rydcMCwDc]
Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won. Here Are The Numbers… [01:04:00 | JAN 21 2025 | Make It Plain | https://youtu.be/bEOB6CbJDc0]
Video Description:
• 4,776,706 voters were wrongly purged from voter rolls according to US Elections Assistance Commission data. • By August of 2024, for the first time since 1946, self-proclaimed “vigilante” voter-fraud hunters challenged the rights of 317,886 voters. The NAACP of Georgia estimates that by Election Day, the challenges exceeded 200,000 in Georgia alone. • No less than 2,121,000 mail-in ballots were disqualified for minor clerical errors (e.g. postage due). • At least 585,000 ballots cast in-precinct were also disqualified. • 1,216,000 “provisional” ballots were rejected, not counted. • 3.24 million new registrations were rejected or not entered on the rolls in time to vote.
Greg Palast (http://gregpalast.com/) is a forensic economist and data journalist Palast covered vote suppression for The Guardian, BBC Television and Rolling Stone. He is the author of New York Times bestsellers on the topic including The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
Generated Summary:
This video features Greg Palast, an investigative reporter and forensic economist, discussing the significant impact of voter suppression on the 2024 election. He argues that without vote suppression, Kamala Harris would have won the election with 386 electoral votes and a popular plurality of almost two million votes. Palast presents data and examples to support his claim that voter suppression disproportionately affects people of color and young voters.
Key points include:
- Purging of Voter Rolls:
- 4,776,706 voters were wrongly purged from voter rolls before the 2024 election.
- Palast notes that these purges have a “racial stench” when analyzed.
- In Georgia, 198,000 voters were illegally removed, with experts confirming none had moved from their legal voting address.
- Voter Challenges:
- A third of a million voters were challenged by a Trump-affiliated organization called “True the Vote.”
- The NAACP of Georgia estimated over 200,000 challenges before the 2024 election.
- These challenges disproportionately targeted voters of color.
- Disqualification of Ballots:
- 2.1 million mail-in ballots were disqualified.
- The chance of a ballot being disqualified is 900% higher for Black voters than for white voters.
- 585,000 in-precinct ballots were also disqualified.
- Provisional Ballots:
- 1.2 million provisional ballots were rejected.
- Black, Hispanic, or Latino voters are 300% more likely to be handed a provisional ballot that won’t be counted.
- New Voter Suppression Laws:
- Between 2020 and 2024, 30 states passed laws making it more difficult to vote.
- These laws disproportionately affect people of color.
- Vigilante Vote Challenges:
- A new system of vigilante vote challenges emerged, reminiscent of a 1946 Ku Klux Klan plan.
- In Georgia, 88 Republican operatives challenged 180,000 voters in 2020.
- One Republican operative challenged 32,000 voters in Cobb County, Georgia.
- Media Neglect:
- Palast criticizes mainstream media for not highlighting the racial disparities in ballot disqualifications and purges.
- He argues that the media fails to calculate and report the impact of vote suppression on election outcomes.
- Examples of Impact:
- Palast recounts the story of a 92-year-old Black woman in Atlanta who was denied her right to vote after voting at the same station for 50 years.
- He shares the experience of Major Galel Turner, a Pentagon expert on warfare, whose mail-in ballot was rejected despite being sent in on time.
Palast emphasizes that the elimination of Black votes and voters from voter rolls is a significant issue, and he urges greater attention to these disparities. He concludes that Jim Crow tactics effectively “won” the election by suppressing the votes of people of color.
- Purging of Voter Rolls:
BlueAnon
None of these facts explain the major election anomolies from the midwest: a huge amount of ballots had the presidential race blank while having votes for downballot candidates.
That’s very simple to explain.
Fucking racists.
I mean you’re right but which racists?
Latinos had record low turnout for democrats. Likely because “ICE bill” was a backpedal from DACA. Muslims have a strong presence in the midwest, I can’t imagine gaza was not the driver for low dem turnout there.
There’s a good argument to be made that letting in bigots into the dems big tent led to low turnouts in targeted demographics while making republican lies seem more credulous to the bigots dems were trying to recruit, leading to israel defenders and immigration racists not voting or voting trump.
We simply might be in the information landscape where there’s more to gain from opposing republican policies people agree with as it would help discredit republicans.
Yah, I was so racist I voted for a Latino woman on the PSL ticket.
I’m not voting for genocide. Simple as. A lot of people apparently felt the same. Pull your collective heads out of your asses and start running candidates that are worth a damn.
Sorry. I should’ve said racism and idiots.
Sorry, that was flippant. Let me expound a little.
I’m a first past the post voting system, like ours, majority wins. So when you don’t vote, or you vote for a candidate that can win like a third party, you’re reducing the amount each real candidate needs to win by half a vote.
So you actually voted for TWO genocide supporting candidates. You supported them both. And in doing so, you fucked your neighbors. Idiot.
Keep talking. Still not voting for genocide.
My point is that you did.
Hate the system all you like. A vote isn’t support of a candidate. It’s a hit to their opposition. You hit no one. You supported two genocidal candidates.
The only way to avoid that is to leave this society. Until then, you’re part of it.
Classic .world
Ad hominem. Explain to me how, in a first pasr the post system with only two viable candidates, your lack of a vote helped Palestinians.
Show me the line of logic. I’m happy to change my mind.
But as I understand it, having looked at the math, failing to vote does nothing but support both candidates by reducing the total number of votes they both need. You gave half your vote to each one of the candidates.
Keep talking, still not doing it. Run better candidates.
You care more about perceived moral correctness for yourself than actually helping Palestinians.
More children died because of your inability to work with what we have. Congratulations, murderer.
you did though
Keep talking, still not doing it. Run better candidates.
fascist countries, known for their quality candidates
oh ok, i forgot i was the president of the democratic party, I’m calling the headquarters right now. dumbass
So not only defending the two party system but also genocide, you can fuck right off with that bullshit
I’m what world did I say it was a good thing? You can hate something and still accept that you’re trapped it in.
I can’t abide you people who just roll over and do nothing in the face of difficulty.
well good thing the genocide stopped huh thanks to your vote i guess
Keep talking, still not doing it. Run better candidates.
oh so you’re just a bot
Tell it to a judge.
Mostly people just refused to vote for genocidal maniacs, and turnout was low on both sides.
Which also means they stepped out of the way for the bigger one to win. Its quite privileged to not vote to minimize harm because you aren’t under siege
I disagree.
It is not on the people to go out of their way and vote for the duopoly.
It is on the politicians to motivate the people to vote for them. You do this by pushing for policy that people like and getting the word out.
Bernie Sanders was a pseudo-populist who was able to do this, but his push against the duopoly was very limited due to him being a career politician and not wanting to hurt his good friends Joe Biden’s or Hillary Clinton’s feelings.
I tried to keep it simple, but there is more to this when you get past the propaganda and the party loyalty.
RBN points out more in:
Chris Hedges Interview | Bernie Is a Careerist | Third Parties | Can’t Trust Democrats | Nick Cruse [27:07 | AUG 15 2025 | Revolutionary Blackout]
https://lemmy.world/post/34545259
Hasan Piker Promotes DSA Zohran Mamdani | PMC Pushing Failed Tactics on Working Class | Nick Cruse [20:47 | AUG 19 2025 | Revolutionary Blackout]
You’re not wrong in your grievance. Still you are very privileged in being able to abstain and give up all your ability to formally obstruct from federal to local levels.
Its easy to wait for a perfect candidate when your not being starved for food.
This is such a ghoulish thing to say in support of the people doing it to Gaza
You’re not picking up a rifle or voting to minimize the aid to their foe; you’re not a serious ally.
Good to hear you don’t consider yourself a serious ally.
Check your privilege on being able to abstain.
Says the guy with no actionable alternative.
privileged
easy to wait for a perfect candidate
Who uses this kind of language when you are trying to get a point across…
It does the opposite of what you intend to do, which is to shepherd the working class back to the blue team.
This kind of language is not new, but the Blue Team does like to use it every time they lose, as excuses for not appealing to the working class with policies.
Blaming the voters is a sad and desperate excuse to use; we must do better than the status quo.
My point is clear.
we must do better than the status quo.
Abstaining doesn’t get progressives in office either.
Yes, and I pointed out the only way to do it, instead of blaming others for their continued failed attempts.
For some it seems like it is on purpose so as to continue the divide and conquer strategy that is the duopoly.
It is on the politicians to motivate the people to vote for them. You do this by pushing for policy that people like and getting the word out.
Incorrect. Trump is just as much of a Zionist as Biden. Israeli officials already revealed that the Biden admin never gave them any pushback whatsoever behind closed doors.
I’ve explained clearly before. If you can’t get a progressive in office or suitable third party you should vote for harm minimization; which is likely to be dem. There are more elections than just presidential. If you abstain your getting out of the way for the worst. That makes you a bad ally.
You’re a liberal. And a genocide supporter. I’m a socialist. You’re no ally of mine.
Here we have on display the smug, ignorant elitism that destroys political movements. Ignore this person for they are no one’s ally but themselves.
No, they’re just not your ally. And because you’re a smug, ignorant elitist, you assume they aren’t anyone else’s. But they are.
Given I haven’t put forth much of an opinion or really anything of substance here, you don’t actually know if I’m smug, ignorant, or an elitist - you’re just pulling insults out of your arse. In fact, you’re just parroting what I said in my last comment. You’re not even original.
According to your other comment, where you claim resorting to lazy insults means one has nothing, you admit to having nothing. Excellent self own, A++.
What “movement” are they promoting? Reformist centrism is pretending to be a “movement” now? LoL. Nice try.
Progressive movement. I see myself as a socialist.
I was going to say nice strawman, but yours is stupid and just lazy. You can’t even straw man right.
You’re no ally of mine.
Well if not for me; do it for those towing a rifle in Palestine. They need as much respite as they can get.
You’re promoting a party that’s supporting their genocide. Fuck off, hasbara bot.
Oh that’s right, you’re a genocide denier when it comes to the Democrats role in Gaza
Can you quote where I said genocide was not happening?
Removed by mod
At least you’re admitting you supported genocide to maintain the status quo you enjoyed. No problem with Biden deporting 250% more people than Trump, because he did it quietly and with decorum!
So they were both fascists then, and apparently exterminating two million people is “effective politics” and “upholding the status quo”.
They know that, they’ve been told repeatedly in the past. They’re just a willful denialist when it comes to the Democrats role in genocide.
Probably a hasbara astroturf account.
Maybe, seems like just a BlueMAGA chud though.
What’s the difference?
Whether they still defend Israel and its genocide, or whether they suddenly stopped the moment Trump got elected.
Removed by mod
Nope. No genocide support whatsoever.
All you fascists keep trotting out this “nuance” talking point, and it gives away your allegiances.
