MOLLY BALL MEETS GEORGE ORWELL
Disingenuous Rhetorical Sophistry: A common trait in ‘Political Language’
©2009-2023 William Whitten
"Politics and the English Language" is an essay by George Orwell that criticized the "ugly and inaccurate" written English of his time and examined the connection between political orthodoxies and the debasement of language.
Disingenuous Rhetorical Sophistry: A common trait in ‘Political Language’
Political Language has a distinctly different agenda than to inform with reason and factual information. Political language seeks to form a narrative favorable to various subjects and characters in the telling of events. Words are used in such a way as to make criminal acts seem innocent, or innocent acts appear criminal.
The essay focuses on political language, which, according to Orwell, "is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind".
Orwell called this type of language ‘Newspeak’ in his masterpiece NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR. In the current era it is called ‘misinformation’ or ‘disinformation’ depending on the intent of the writer.
Molly Ball was chosen specifically for the task the conspirators wanted to do, put their story in a favorable light using the propagandistic purposes meant to be portrayed.
The conspirators wished to be portrayed as heroes rather that the criminals they actually were.
Let us specify these crimes at this point to illustrate what I will be putting foreword.
First there is the conspiracy itself, a federal RICO offense. Then the various crimes each individual or group committed. There need be no novel applications of the law to describe these crimes. The ultimate crime rigging the 2020 presidential election by manipulating law in questionable lawsuits that altering statutes unlawfully using various excuses put in political language. The pandemic played a part in manufacturing reasons to change voting laws, such as the massive campaign to instate mail-in voting. All of the opportunities to scam the ballots by using false names and made of ‘signature’, all done unseen with comrades in on the plan.
Other technical opportunities were available concerning voting machines. These machines were created specifically for oligarchies and despotic states to control elections to their favor.
The proximate origin of was in Venezuela. They were used to keep Hugo Chávez in power for many years. The details of the history of this is put in a Substack essay that I will cite in the notes at the end of this work.
Molly Ball
Molly Ball wrote an article published in TIME Magazine on Feb 4. 2021. The title of the article is, ‘The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election’.
Ms Ball begins:
“A weird thing happened right after the Nov. 3 election:
nothing.
The nation was braced for chaos. Liberal groups had vowed to take to the streets, planning hundreds of protests across the country. Right-wing militias were girding for battle. In a poll before Election Day, 75% of Americans voiced concern about violence.”
She sets the stage in a rather playful tone with the first sentence. Then she adds a bit of spice as a hint of something sinister lingering as an almost subliminal message percolating in the back of your mind as you read on.
She continues:
“A second odd thing happened amid Trump’s attempts to reverse the result: corporate America turned on him. Hundreds of major business leaders, many of whom had backed Trump’s candidacy and supported his policies, called on him to concede. To the President, something felt amiss. “It was all very, very strange,” Trump said on Dec. 2. “Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner, even while many key states were still being counted.”
”In a way, Trump was right.
There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day.
Of course it wasn’t only Trump that felt something had gone amiss. For those of us studying the events unfolding became very suspicious. Although not shown by corporatist media, there were many dissidents speaking up pointing out oddities and anomalies. Some of these people were professionals with background knowledge of what election fraud looks like. The history of rigging elections is long and educational. But the manner in which it is done in more high tech in the current era, not only the
voting machines, but all of the modern tools, such as text messaging, email, blogging, publishing in neoliberal magazines and papers, appearing on mainstream media pushing the message that Donald Trump is the personification of Satan, and must be defeated an any and all costs. The repetition of that message of imminent danger, creating fear in their audience eventually becomes a mass belief of something clearly specious yet firmly accepted. This made whatever unfair treatment given to Trump was seen as deserved. Thus Trump Derangement Syndrome was born, a psychosis engineered by propaganda, some of it ‘fear porn’ some of it ‘revenge porn’, all psychologically manipulative.
Those who have been thus psychologically prepared will automatically fall for patent absurdities because the source is so universally hailed as the experts on all topics.
So when they read a paragraph such as the following it is believed without any conscious analysis whatsoever. That is ‘Modern Brainwashing 101’.
The Rosetta Stone
Ms. Ball continues:
“It is the story of an unprecedented, creative and determined campaign whose success also reveals how close the nation came to disaster. “Every attempt to interfere with the proper outcome of the election was defeated,” says Ian Bassin, co-founder of Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan rule-of-law advocacy group.
But it’s massively important for the country to understand that it didn’t happen accidentally. The system didn’t work magically. Democracy is not self-executing.”That’s why the participants want 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 rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information.
They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it. And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures.”
Let’s unpack this. Ian Bassin says,“Every attempt to interfere with the proper outcome of the election was defeated,”
How was it defeated? What does that mean specifically? Well here is a clue as to their modus operandi:
“The system didn’t work magically. Democracy is not self-executing.” Bassin explains.
What is Bassin actually saying here? What does “magically” mean here? Some metaphysical act? Asserting that “Democracy is not self-executing,” is patently absurd.
Democracy is in fact self-executing when it happens naturally and it is not interfered with and manipulated as Bassin and his cohorts did.
Ball says, They were not rigging the election. Why did she bring up that term? Because it is obvious that this is exactly what they were doing.
Ms. Ball writes:
“The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election–an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted.
For more than a year, a loosely organized coalition of operatives scrambled to shore up America’s institutions as they came under simultaneous attack from a remorseless pandemic and an autocratically inclined President. Though much of this activity took place on the left, it was separate from the Biden campaign and crossed ideological lines, with crucial contributions by nonpartisan and conservative actors. The scenario the shadow campaigners were desperate to stop was not a Trump victory. It was an election so calamitous that no result could be discerned at all, a failure of the central act of democratic self-governance that has been a hallmark of America since its founding. Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears. They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump’s conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction.”
Let us immediately inquire as to why this “shadow effort”, what were they hiding? The inculpatory evidence left out of this narrative?
“They got states to change voting systems and laws” – What laws and how was it done? And the voting systems? Of course the magical transformer machine to transform ballots from on vote into another of their choosing.
“secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding.” – And just what were these funds used for specifically? Cash persuasion for people in key positions?
*Zuckerberg gave Raffensperger $5million ostensibly as a campaign donation.* Given Raffensperger’s position on the infamous phone call with Donald Trump it seems feasible that the Zuckerberg money was a bribe that Raffensperger accepted for his participation in the sealing the election simply by cooking the books and lying to the Trump team in that phone call. Recall that Trump was with his lawyers and assistants. None of whom have said that Trump did anything untoward in that phone call.
Molly tells us about Mike Podhorzer:
She calls him the ‘Architect’, he is however the ringleader of the conspiracy.
“Sometime in the fall of 2019, Mike Podhorzer became convinced the election was headed for disaster–and determined to protect it. This was not his usual purview. For nearly a quarter-century, Podhorzer, senior adviser to the president of the AFL-CIO.”
“Here he comes to save the day!!! The hero of Molly’s fabulous tale, Mike Podhorzer.
“Among Democratic insiders, he’s known as the wizard behind some of the biggest advances in political technology in recent decades. A group of liberal strategists he brought together in the early 2000s led to the creation of the Analyst Institute, a secretive firm that applies scientific methods to political campaigns. He was also involved in the founding of Catalist, the flagship progressive data company. The endless chatter in Washington about “political strategy,” Podhorzer believes, has little to do with how change really gets made. “My basic take on politics is that it’s all pretty obvious if you don’t overthink it or swallow the prevailing frameworks whole,” he once wrote.“After that, just relentlessly identify your assumptions and challenge them.” Podhorzer applies that approach to everything.”
So quickly Podhorzer takes on the character of Professor Moriarty of the Sherlock Holmes tales, brooding and calculating, clever and treacherous. But the hubris and gall to come forward and explain this sordid tale of deceit and treason. Consider a cabal of conspirators with the hundreds of millions in public and private funding. When playing political hardball a bribe is as good as intimidation to achieve goals by covert means.
And the evidence for my assessment? The evidence is in the conspirators own words if you pay attention to what is being said both overtly and in subtext, revealed by the assumptions one must have come to in order to feel qualified to manipulate an election on the basis of ones own subjective opinion which is amplified by a program of recruitment of those with the same ideology of might-is-right and the ends justify the means. A Machiavellian policy of ‘Realpolitik’,the classic authoritarian epistemology.
Motive
Now let us address the word ‘save’. Molly Ball uses the term in the title of the piece we are concerned with here, ‘The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election’. What is being saved by people who interject their power to manipulate the election of the president of the United States? All that is saved in this case is their own positions of wealth and political power. The power that Trump vowed to strip from these elite oligarchs colluding with the corrupt administrative state.
Reference must be made to the [3] Twitter Files and the [2] Durham Report for the revelation of grand collusion between corrupt administrative state and the DNC leadership in league with high tech moguls combining with the corporatist mainstream propaganda network to create a cabal of despotic rulers squatting in DC and NY.
As Ball tells us;
“the potential for a November meltdown was obvious. In his apartment in the D.C. suburbs, Podhorzer began working from his laptop at his kitchen table, holding back-to-back Zoom meetings for hours a day with his network of contacts across the progressive universe: the labor movement; the institutional left, like Planned Parenthood and Greenpeace; resistance groups like Indivisible and MoveOn; progressive data geeks and strategists, representatives of donors and foundations, state-level grassroots organizers, racial-justice activists and others.”
Obviously Podhorzer built a literal army of activists, provocateurs, clever scam artists, lawfare specialists and legal experts to analyze vaguely written laws that they could exploit with their own preferred spin to them, some to reinforce, others to change to align with their agenda.
Political Language
At this point I am going to propose that the central core of Molly Ball’s article is the disingenuous language she uses. The proximate cause of her failure is using the term “Saved” pertaining to the result of the election. It goes against all reason that a group of conspirators manipulated and managed the 2020 presidential election actually ‘saved’ the election when all that was accomplished was the fruition of their criminal agenda.
This activity was in effect a ‘Soft Coup”, installing a pretender in the White House. The ultimate crime is treason and conspiracy to commit treason. The Biden regime being in collusion with these conspirators mean that the Biden regime is guilty of treason as well. This situation of course is critically dangerous to America’s freedoms and Liberty. A junta like the Biden regime meaning the whole combination of DNC leadership colluding with the administrative state, in league with the mainstream statist media network and run by a central soviet structure. They often meet and plan strategy at events held by the Counsel on Foreign Relations (CFR).
Those who think that this ruling cabal will peacefully give up power are naïve, jejune and foolish. So what do patriotic Americans do? Well, exactly what America’s founders did; publish dissident views, explaining the situation as I have, expressed in any fashion you deem fit. The American people must be shaken awake to the clear and present danger facing our freedoms.
Just keep in mind that what I just wrote is based on the facts of the rigged 2020 election and the ultimate consequences that are clearly at hand. One of the most glaring part of the junta’s agenda is to get rid of Trump and any of his associates in mass. The astounding fraudulent indictments pending against Trump and his associates is an obvious attempt to utterly destroy their political enemies and bury the memory of them in a mass grave.
This is not a game, it is a matter of the “Ends Justify the Means” and “Might is Right’ principles of the junta. This is not a new phenomenon, it is history repeating itself in the fashion of analogy.
“A republic if you can keep it” ~Benjamin Franklin
“On March 3, Podhorzer drafted a three-page confidential memo titled “Threats to the 2020 Election.” “Trump has made it clear that this will not be a fair election, and that he will reject anything but his own re-election as ‘fake’ and rigged,” he wrote. “On Nov. 3, should the media report otherwise, he will use the right-wing information system to establish his narrative and incite his supporters to protest.” The memo laid out four categories of challenges: attacks on voters, attacks on election administration, attacks on Trump’s political opponents and “efforts to reverse the results of the election.”
So yes Trump has an intelligence network that was clearly keeping track of the Podhorzer machinations, as these conspirators were making public declarations as well as the privet zoom calls and memos. So Trump knew as it was happening that there was this conspiracy to rig the election. He didn’t know the exact details, but certainly was keeping up with the lawsuits and rulings on the presumed ‘need’ for mail-in voting because of the plandemic. In hindsight it is obvious that the timing of the plandemic was specifically to mandate mail-in voting to keep ‘social distancing’ rules in place. All very conveniently timed.
“Then COVID-19 erupted at the height of the primary-election season. Normal methods of voting were no longer safe for voters or the mostly elderly volunteers who normally staff polling places.” ~ Molly Ball
Very conveniently timed indeed.
“In April, Podhorzer began hosting a weekly 2½-hour Zoom. It was structured around a series of rapid-fire five-minute presentations on everything from which ads were working to messaging to legal strategy. The invitation-only gatherings soon attracted hundreds, creating a rare shared base of knowledge for the fractious progressive movement. “At the risk of talking trash about the left, there’s not a lot of good information sharing,” says Anat Shenker-Osorio, a close Podhorzer friend whose poll-tested messaging guidance shaped the group’s approach. “There’s a lot of not-invented-here syndrome, where people won’t consider a good idea if they didn’t come up with it.”
So Ms. Ball gives these ‘details’ that don’t really contain much solid information. Just hints and innuendo. But a conspiracy of hundreds is bound to leak like a sieve and would end up in Trump’s own data base as well. Breaking law and election rules by lawfare does not go on unnoticed to one paying attention to docketing in legal journals. Some of the 55 court cases brought by Trump’s legal team addressed these issues. But unfortunately in all of those cases there was no discovery hearing and the cases were dismissed on technical reasons such as ‘standing’ and ‘laches’:
2,036,041 Ballots Touched By Anomalies
923 Fact Witnesses
50+ Courts Blocked An Evidentiary Hearing
GOP plaintiff prevailed on 14 of the 21 cases decided on the merits.
Crowdsourcing evidence for journalists.
https://hereistheevidence.com/
“Protecting the election would require an effort of unprecedented scale. As 2020 progressed, it stretched to Congress, Silicon Valley and the nation’s statehouses. It drew energy from the summer’s racial-justice protests, many of whose leaders were a key part of the liberal alliance. And eventually it reached across the aisle, into the world of Trump-skeptical Republicans appalled by his attacks on democracy.”-- Ms. Ball
This is filler, it contains no information at all, just opportunities to take digs at Trump
REPORT OF INVESTIGATION CASE NAME: Fulton County-Poll Worker Fraud SEB CASE #: SEB2020-059 INVESTIGATOR: Gilbert C. Humes DATE OF REPORT: March 7, 2023
The Secretary of State’s Office initiated this investigation following a complaint referral from Georgia State Senator Kay Kirkpatrick. Senator Kirkpatrick received a complaint from Complainant who provided pictures of social media posts reportedly posted by Ruby Freeman, an elections worker for the Fulton County Board of Elections and Registration for the November 2020 General Election. The post appeared to suggest Freeman committed fraud during the tabulation of ballots at State Farm Arena after the closing of the polls for the November 2020 Presidential Election.
Senator Kirkpatrick submitted additional social media posts reportedly posted by Freeman suggesting that Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss conspired to adversely affect the November 2020 election. There were also public allegations made by Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump’s attorney at the time, alleging there was video footage showing that Freeman and her daughter Wandrea “Shaye” Moss pulled illegal ballots from “suitcases” that were hidden underneath tables and scanned the same batch of ballots multiple times while at State Farm Arena, where the Fulton County Board of Elections and Registration had set up their ballot tabulation center.
All allegations made are potential violations of Official Code of Georgia Annotated (O.C.G.A.) §21-2-603-Conspiracy to commit election fraud; O.C.G.A. §21-2-587-Frauds by poll officers; and O.C.G.A. §21-2-575- Counterfeit ballots.
Interviews of Michelle Branton and Mitchell Harrison On November 8, 2020, Michelle Branton, who identified herself as a member of the Georgia Republican Party, filed an affidavit stating she was assigned to the State Farm Arena to watch the processing of absentee ballots. In the affidavit, Branton reported (1) as the night progressed, most of the staff processing the removal of the inner envelopes and ballots from the outer envelope of the Absentee Ballots stopped working; however, there was one employee that continued working when the others had ceased.
Her affidavit further states that after that last employee completed her stack at approximately 10:30 p.m., a woman across the room where the scanners were allegedly located yelled to everyone to stop working and to return the next day at 8:30 a.m. Branton further reported that, shortly after 10:30 p.m. when she and the FOX News crew concluded they were not going to get answers to their question from Fulton County’s Communications Manager on the number of ballots processed and left to be processed, she and the FOX News crew left State Farm Arena shortly after 10:30 p.m. At the time she left, three people remained around the scanners.
Mitchell Harrison, who also identified himself as a member of the Georgia Republican Party, submitted an unsigned affidavit documenting his observations of the ballot scanning process, as his assignment was to monitor ballot counting and processing in Fulton County. Harrison reiterated what was reported by Branton. Harrison also confirmed Branton’s account by reporting that when the counting activity slowed, a younger woman with long braided hair yelled out to everyone to stop working and come back the following day.
According to Harrison’s affidavit, after the announcement, all but 4 election employees left State Farm Arena. Harrison reported after concluding that the Public Affairs Manager was not going to provide him with the number of ballots processed vs. the ones still left to be processed, “we” ROI: Fulton County-Poll Worker Fraud SEB2020-059 Page 8 along with the FOX News crew left the State Farm Arena shortly after 10:30 p.m. Harrison further reported they heard from news crews that ballot counting was still going on at State Farm even though they were told it had ceased for the night and would not resume until Wednesday morning. [Investigator’s Note: In the beginning of Harrison’s affidavit, he detailed how he heard someone, whom he believed was a supervisor, telling election employees they can leave and when he couldn’t get a question answered, he left. However, in the latter part of his affidavit he states he was told to leave.]
INVESTIGATIVE FINDINGS:
“Both poll watchers confirmed that no one was told or instructed to leave State Farm Arena.”
This is not true as is shown by the testimony of Harrison and Branton above.
https://sos.ga.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/SEB2020-059%20R
TRUMP TEAM'S FULL VIDEO of VOTER FRAUD in FULTON GA. FOUND the NIGHT of 12/02/2020! VIDEO PROOF
“The first task was overhauling America’s balky election infrastructure–in the middle of a pandemic. For the thousands of local, mostly nonpartisan officials who administer elections, the most urgent need was money. They needed protective equipment like masks, gloves and hand sanitizer. They needed to pay for postcards letting people know they could vote absentee–or, in some states, to mail ballots to every voter. They needed additional staff and scanners to process ballots.”--Ms. Ball
“America’s balky election infrastructure”? The election infrastructure that it had used successfully for some 230 years! America’s standard election infrastructure that needed altering to achieve the agenda to defeat Trump at all costs. So the conspirators altered and manipulated election rules, provided personnel for paid poll workers. Sending out mail in ballots by the millions, and providing the Dominion voting machines that have been designed specifically for rigging elections for elite oligarchs worldwide.[7]
Eric Coomer demonstrates how the adjudication function on the Dominion machines can flip votes from one candidate to another.
NOTES:
The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
1. Georgia’s Raffensperger Did It Too – Accepted $5 Million of ‘Zuckerbucks’ Says It Was Used for “Issuing Public Service Announcements”
2. The Durham Report
3. The Twitter Files
4. Molly Ball Reloaded
5. Trump Raffensperger Call
6. The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
7. DOMINION & SMARTMATIC VOTING MACHINES
8. The Lincoln Project
9. Hamilton 68
Left-wing think tank responsible for thousands of fake Russia stories: new Twitter Files
https://nypost.com/2023/01/28/left-wing-think-tank-responsible-for-fake-russia-stories/
Wholeheartedly agree!