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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Good question

[BDW @BryanDeanWright]

Fmr CIA officer here.

Let me share how elections get stolen — and the role of intel agencies.

We all know that the CIA and NSA create and execute clandestine operations that are designed to go undetected. That ranges from recruiting human spies, tapping phone systems, and altering devices of all kinds.

Yes, that necessarily includes voting machines.

The CIA and NSA have teams to execute all of these operations and missions at the direction of a President, even those ops that are deemed impossible… like machines locked in rooms that are inside secure facilities, unhooked from the internet or whatever device that could tether them to the outside world.

Those tough intel operations require extensive planning, exquisite trade craft, supporting operations (HUMINT, SIGINT, MASINT), and a degree of luck.

For many years, everything that I’m saying was understood by both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill.

Historic footage from Congressional hearings show both Ds and Rs saying that they were alarmed about voting systems with so-called “unhackable machines.” They knew then — correctly — that such a suggestion or claim was ridiculous. They were briefed by NSA and CIA teams on how they “hack the unhackable” every month without leaving a trace.

This is why Taiwan and others are resolute on conducting elections the old fashioned way: same day voting only, in person, IDs, paper ballots, a counting process that is open to the public to watch and monitor, and results announced that same night.

If Taiwan can do it with ~24M people, any US state can do it. Refusal to do so is an intentional choice to open your electoral systems to vulnerabilities.

That's what we’re now seeing across the United States, and primarily in Democrat-dominated locales. Including Los Angeles. Those politicians choose broken systems.

California’s ~30 day process to tally votes is obviously and intentionally vulnerable that a reasonable person understands that it allows for manipulation and assured electoral outcome by a dominant power (Democrats, in this case).

And like any good intel op, you do it such that there are no fingerprints left behind — whether that be with machines, mail-in ballots, harvested ballots, etc. If you own the ops environment, anything is possible.

Still, mistakes happen in any op. In the event of disclosure, you do what we often see Democrats and the media do: deny, smear, and make counter-accusations to preserve intentionally broken systems.

Folks, this is not about Spencer Pratt. This is about the future of what’s left of our Republic.

Evil, seditious forces have broken our electoral systems and gained great power using them. Mayor Bass is but one, using the machine that her Democrat Party has built to sustain her and Leftist power. It’s the modern, Golden State version of old Chicago, NJ, or Huey Long corruption.

They will deny it, obviously. Because admission means loss of power, money, and likely prison time. There’s no incentive for them to clean up what’s broken.

Bottom line: Mr. Pratt’s earnest desire to run a righteous race to fix his city faces long odds. He didn’t just run against Karen Bass. He ran against a corrupt machine.

But if nothing else, he has shown his fellow Angelinos and the nation that, once again, we have an existential problem in our electoral system with intentional vulnerabilities and electoral fraud that naturally flows from the brokenness.

Now it’s up to the rest of us to fix it.

There are solutions, none easy or polite. But we must do so — and by whatever means necessary — or the Republic falls to Communists and Cuba-trained agitators like Karen Bass.

Those are the stakes. Time is short.

[RedWave Press @RedWavePress]

Jacqui Heinrich: “APAIC is an American organization, as you know, and [Susan] Collins voted for the War Powers Resolution, so saying she’s ‘bought and paid for by Netanyahu’ is a bit of a reach. But, you know, blaming the Jews seems like a risky defense for a guy with a Nazi tattoo who’s trying to convince people that it was just an innocent mistake and it doesn’t mean anything. Are you concerned that your party has an antisemitism problem?”

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY): “He’s going to have to speak for himself, and that’s what any candidate, particularly in a high-profile race, is going to be called upon to do.”

[L A R R Y @LarryOConnor]

"unless I see pictures of the bruises thereis no evidence of violence."

Mr. Epstein Warrior.

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

Scott Pelley says Bari Weiss asked 60 Minutes staffers: “Why do you think the country thinks you’re biased?"

Pelley: "Why do you think so? Do you have a poll? Is there market research? What are you talking about?"

"Because we certainly didn't believe that."

Incredible.

[Tim Pool @Timcast]

Correct

[David J Harris Jr @DavidJHarrisJr]

🚨BREAKING: Newly released FBI records obtained by Judicial Watch reveal that Deputy Kinlee Hoyle had two email exchanges with Thomas Matthew Crooks prior to the July 13, 2024 assassination attempt on President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The emails’ content remains heavily redacted, but the deputy confirmed the communications in post-incident interviews.

This adds another layer of questions about pre-rally interactions between law enforcement and the shooter.

[Mr Producer @RichSementa]

Even Bill Maher admits California is completely FKED UP:

"In 39 days we will know the winner. Oh no, that's the mayor of LA.... What a fu*ked-up state this is... Eric Swalwell got 19,000 votes. Who are these people?"

California is a national joke.

[Jamie Kennedy @JamieKennedy]

This is a literal crime scene. There is no way this is an honest election.

[Patrick Webb @Patrickwebb]

BREAKING: FBI records confirm that a Butler County Sheriff’s deputy exchanged two emails with Thomas Matthew Crooks prior to the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, PA, per FOIA request.

[J @JayTC53]

🚨 Spencer Pratt 10 pt lead over Nithya Raman has shrunk to 4 pts since LA started counting the "Mail In Ballots"

This is 100% election fraud! This should NEVER be happening in America!

[Caroline Wren @CarolineWren]

Just an unbelievable 2 minutes of television

[The Megyn Kelly Show @MegynKellyShow]

"No one is going to trust this outcome if Steve Hilton and Spencer Pratt are eliminated from the general election."

Megyn rips California for their third-world election process.

[RNC Research @RNCResearch]

Maine Wire reporter, Steve Robinson on Graham Platner:

“He’s proven himself to be a pathological liar...The oyster business, totally fake...Look at the date that his website for his fake oyster business was created, it was created after Graham for Maine, his Senate website.”

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

It's hard to overstate how much of an outlier California is for its slow vote-counting relative to literally any other state or almost any other industrialized democracy.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

BREAKING: California Democrat Ro Khanna says the allegations against Graham Platner reported by The New York Times are “wrong and toxic,” but says he will still appear alongside him at a rally in Maine tonight.

In a statement, Congressman Khanna wrote, “The people of Maine deserve a senator who is going to stand up to the billionaire class, against genocide, and for the working class.” | @OutnumberedFNC @kayleighmcenany

[Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck]

POWERFUL: @BUngarSargon SLAMS Graham Platner and Democrats lining up to defend him...

"Well, I'll just say my grandfather's whole family was murdered in the Sobibor concentration camp. Graham Platner doesn't just have a Nazi tattoo. For 18 years, he had a tattoo of the concentration camp guards on his chest, and he knew what it was. He knew what it was. And to hear people compare that to anything else in the public sphere in America is insane. And it is insanely offensive. These people who are defending him called me, and every other MAGA person a Nazi for ten years, because we voted for someone who we thought would improve the lives of working-class Americans, and now they are lining up and defending a guy who had a Nazi tattoo -- which he knew about -- for 18 years. It is so insane to act like anything Donald Trump did was anywhere close to having a Taunton Cup on his chest for 18 years. This guy is a Nazi, and Democrats are lining up behind him because they think he can win."

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

🙋‍♂️ Umm what can be worse than being an actual Nazi?

[Sean Spicer @seanspicer]

Bessent for the win

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 OMG. SEC. SCOTT BESSENT JUST WENT THERE 🔥

SEN WYDEN (D): We don't want ramblings about the most corrupt regime in history, we want facts

BESSENT: "And we'd like to hear what Adam Wyden and Jeffrey EPSTEIN talked about. Your son's largest investment position was Rick's Cabaret. So, did your son and Jeffrey Epstein talk about pole dancing as he begged him for money using your limited credibility?"

ASSASSIN.