The MAGA Misinformation-Industrial Complex

Discussion in 'Politics' started by gwb-trading, Aug 11, 2024.

  1. gwb-trading

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    #51     Oct 7, 2024
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    #52     Oct 9, 2024
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    Republican candidate's ad talking about how bad Biden has been for the economy of New Hampshire includes video of a supermarket in Estonia, a gas pump in Poland, and a burger in Thailand. Wow, Biden ruined everything everywhere.

    Ayotte's ad included foreign video to attack Craig on raising N.H. prices
    https://www.aol.com/ayottes-ad-included-foreign-video-225100948.html

    Oct. 8—CONCORD — Republican nominee for governor Kelly Ayotte's latest ad attacking Democratic rival Joyce Craig includes foreign stock video footage including a clip that a Super PAC backing former President Donald Trump used against Kamala Harris in August.

    In one frame, the ad featured a grocery store checkout line while a narrator claimed that "the cost of groceries skyrocketed."

    The footage from the Estonian videography company Gorodenkoff Productions was the same one used by MAGA Inc., the pro-Trump Super PAC in its ad hitting Harris on inflation.

    One clip has a hand at a gas pump originating from a Polish videographer with the design used by Orlen, a petroleum company and oil refiner in that country.

    A third featured a burger and fries which the narrator said the cost of such a meal "more than doubled" was the work of a Ukrainian videographer.

    According to Igor Pahomov's Facebook, he's listed as Ukrainian, but he is living in Ko Samui, Thailand.

    Monica Venke is national press secretary with American Bridge, a special-interest group that supports Democratic candidates.

    "Kelly Ayotte using foreign stock footage again is tacky enough, but using the same footage as a MAGA Inc. ad shows how much she's scampered back to Donald Trump with her tail between her legs. She's gone from offshoring New Hampshire jobs on corporate boards to offshoring video footage for her ads. Why Ayotte can't just focus on New Hampshire is beyond me, but Poland and Estonia are much further than her other favorite place — Massachusetts," Venke said.

    Ayotte's campaign theme has been 'Don't Mass up N.H.," and charged Craig's past support as Manchester mayor for higher taxes and spending would erase the state's advantage and turn it into a satellite of the Bay State.

    John Corbett, an Ayotte campaign spokesman, said it's not uncommon for video production companies to use footage obtained from national or international contributors.

    "Joyce Craig can't answer for her failed record as Mayor of Manchester and will do anything to try and change the subject," Corbett said in a statement. "Joyce launched her TV campaign with footage of Portsmouth, because she wants to hide her failures as mayor."

    During the primary, Craig's campaign did use the image of a Portsmouth housing complex while the narrator said Craig had approved building 2,000 more housing units during her six years as mayor.
     
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    #53     Oct 9, 2024
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    #54     Oct 12, 2024
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    #55     Oct 12, 2024
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    #56     Oct 13, 2024
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    Still trying to tell Black voters to go to the polls on the wrong day.

    Republican accused of 'deceiving' Black voters with ad showing wrong election date
    https://www.rawstory.com/tom-barrett-michigan/

    A Michigan Republican is being accused of misleading Black voters in a print ad that shows the wrong election date.

    State Sen. Tom Barrett, who's running against Democrat Curtis Hertel for the seat left vacant by Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) as she runs for U.S. Senate, took out a full-page ad in the Oct. 2 issue of the Michigan Bulletin — a Lansing-based, Black-owned alternative weekly publication — that lists Election Day as Nov. 6, a day later than the correct date, reported the Washington Post.

    “At best, Tom Barrett and his Campaign have committed a shocking oversight which will undoubtedly lead to confusion by Black voters in Lansing,” said the Michigan Legislative Black Caucus in a complaint filed Sunday with the state attorney general. "At worst, this ad could be part of an intentional strategy to ‘deter’ Black voters by deceiving them into showing up to vote on the day after the 2024 election.

    Barrett's campaign acknowledged the mistake but claims it was a “proofing error” that was not intended to suppress voter turnout.

    “Our campaign has been committed to outreach to the Black community and Black leaders because it is important to Senator Barrett that every community be heard in this election,” said campaign spokesman Jason Roe. “The goal is to earn more support from Black voters.”

    However, the Michigan Legislative Black Caucus is dubious and accused the GOP legislator of engaging in an “insidious campaign tactic [that] unfortunately appears to be part of a national trend” of election disinformation targeting Black voters.

    It strains credulity that this was a simple mistake,” the complaint states. “Tom Barrett and his Campaign placed two nearly identical ads in two different newspapers within a week of each other. The ad placed in the newspaper read predominantly by Black voters has the wrong election date; while the ad placed in the newspaper not read predominantly by Black voters has the correct election date.

    Roe said next week's issue of the Michigan Bulletin will carry a revised ad showing the correct election date.
     
    #57     Oct 14, 2024
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    Let's catch up with today's court ruling in Georgia. These are the MAGA election board members who stated they would not certify the election unless Trump won -- because in their twisted minds if Trump did not win it could only be due to fraud.


    Georgia judge rules election officials must certify vote counts, even if they suspect fraud
    Judge Robert McBurney's ruling came out Tuesday morning
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ge...s-must-certify-vote-counts-even-suspect-fraud
     
    #58     Oct 15, 2024
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    The judge also pissed on the legs of the MAGA election board members stating that requiring counties to hand count ballots is absurd.

    Judge pauses rule that would require Georgia counties to hand-count ballots
    https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/15/politics/georgia-hand-count-ballots-judge-paused/index.html

    A judge in Georgia has paused a new rule from the Georgia State Election Board that would have required officials to hand-count the number of ballots cast at each polling place, criticizing state election officials for approving it so close to Election Day.

    No training has been administered (let alone developed), no protocols for handling write-in ballots … have been issued, and no allowances have been made in any county’s election budget for additional personnel and other expenses required to implement the Hand Count Rule,” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in his order Tuesday.

    The administrative chaos that will – not may – ensue is entirely inconsistent with the obligations of our boards of elections (and the SEB) to ensure that our elections are fair, legal, and orderly.

    The new hand-counting rule – which had been set to take effect October 22 – would require counties to count by hand the number of ballots cast at a polling place, to make sure it matches the number of ballots tallied by voting machines. The hand-counters, however, wouldn’t be tallying how many votes each candidate received, as that’s what the machines do.

    Democrats cheered the ruling Tuesday evening. “From the beginning, this rule was an effort to delay election results to sow doubt in the outcome, and our democracy is stronger thanks to this decision to block it. We will continue fighting to ensure that voters can cast their ballot knowing it will count,” the Harris campaign, Democratic National Committee and Democratic Party of Georgia said in a joint statement.

    The hand-count rule is the subject of litigation on multiple fronts and a separate hearing on the matter is set for Wednesday. Passed by the Donald Trump-backed Republican majority on the state election board, the rule would require officials at a polling place to match the number of ballots tallied by voting machines with a hand-count of the number of ballots cast.

    The measure has drawn bipartisan criticism, in part because the board forged ahead with it so close to Election Day.

    Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, has noted the state took several steps to speed up the reporting of results in Georgia this year. He has said the hand-count rule could delay the reporting of results, foster an atmosphere for misinformation and present chain of custody issues for ballots.

    The rule, McBurney wrote in his order, “is too much, too late.”

    This election season is fraught; memories of January 6 have not faded away, regardless of one’s view of that date’s fame or infamy. Anything that adds uncertainty and disorder to the electoral process disserves the public,” the judge wrote, adding that while the rule appears on paper to be an extra human check on the accuracy of the election, its last-minute passage “does not contribute to lessening the tension or boosting the confidence of the public for this election.”

    McBurney is overseeing a number of high-profile cases related to Georgia’s election. The judge is considering a separate rule passed by the board in August that requires local election officials to conduct a “reasonable inquiry” into election results before certifying them – a mandate that Democrats say could give county election officials broad authority to delay or decline altogether their certification of the results “in a hunt for purported election irregularities.”

    And on Monday, he ruled that local election officials have “a mandatory fixed obligation to certify election results” in the days following the election – dealing a blow to an effort by conservatives in the critical battleground state to gain the legal right to reject results based on a suspicion of fraud or abuse.
     
    #59     Oct 15, 2024
  10. Mercor

    Mercor

    The Democrats are heading down the road of not accepting the result ....All the illegals voting will trigger court cases and the Democrats will pressure courts to accept the vote. And they wont leave office until that happens
     
    #60     Oct 16, 2024