Be Wary Of The Tidy "2020 Was A Fair Election" Narrative, It May Crumble Over Time
Perhaps the most significant article I came across shortly after the 2024 presidential election featured a graphic that has since garnered some attention from Joe Rogan (the language is a little spicy) and on X/Twitter.
So taking a short retrospective on the narrative, the MSM (Main Stream Media) has repeatedly assured us that the 2020 election was the most valid/secure election ever, or at the least that there is no reason to question the results (as Donald Trump and others did).
You can't fight the narrative (or you can, and be labeled a conspiracy theorist or a heretic). Like the vaccines, the "safe and effective" mantra is nearly sacred, despite whatever truth you may possess that indicates otherwise.
The narrative of there being "virtually no irregularities" in the 2020 election goes something like this:
- Because multiple lawsuits were unsuccessful, that shoots down the theory that there was any malfeasance (and don't believe that any of lawsuits that were successful were significant). [ hopefully I can add links after the initial publication date of this article.]
- You shouldn't believe your eyes (or trust common sense) when you see vans full of ballots doing late night drop offs and people stuffing ballot machines after election monitors are told to go home due to a pipe breaking (that is normal practice, we are told).
- Joe Biden added to the narrative by stating that J6 was the "worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War," so you can forget about 9/11 being on that list and you can also forget about all of the respectable, unarmed, concerned citizens--some who are now dead (one was shot, other have died by suicide) and others who have received maximum injustices under the very justice system they were raising their voices to preserve--that had reasons to question the narrative.
- Ignore the fact that J6 protesters were herded in to disrupt legislative proceedings in process--just prior to the vote--as inquires as to the soundness of the election were being made. After the disruption, the inquiries were forgotten and the election was ratified.
- Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney, and the Democrats helped sustain the J6 narrative via the J6 committee, which relied on video footage the public wasn't able to see in its entirety; the narrative was peppered with short "hand selected" video clips to do maximum damage to their political opponents (Trump most of all). Later, Tucker Carlson would obtain the all of the video and would be fired shortly after giving commentary on it.
- Ignore the multiple articles pointing to statistical improbabilities and/or impossibilities of 2020 election results in localized areas--just accept that the COVID-19 changes to the election process were not politically motivated, that they were bullet-proof and not designed to skew outcomes (nor were the pandemic pandemic protocols themselves designed to skew outcomes).
- Also ignore how the CIA solicited signatures to show that the Hunter Biden Laptop story was Russian disinformation and how search outlets like Google and Facebook otherwise helped bring votes to the Democrat ticket.
- In summary, just believe and take it from your trusted news sources, the 2020 election wasn't rigged. At all!
So the narrative is very tidy. But people savvy people know. Some turn to patriotism to vent their intuitive frustration, like Natasha Owen's hit song "Trump Won," which ascended to top of iTunes for 24 hours; it also reached #5 on the Billboard chart. Why would so many people suspect the narrative and feel the way she does?
Other's will turn to humor: this clever article from the Babylon Bee states how the Democrats now concede that Trump won in 2020 and is now disqualified from serving a third term. It's very funny; unfortunately, it's almost too believable.
It certainly doesn't do any good to talk to people who have accepted the narrative and have implicit trust in MSM narrative sources. Those trusting individuals--with muted curiosities--perhaps are unwilling to dig deeper on the narrative because they'd be extremely uncomfortable with their discoveries. Who knows, maybe they just don't have the time to dig deeper. For older individuals, from the days of their childhood they have had every reason to place their trust in large media outlets. After all, it was the New York Times and Washington Post that first brought us the stories related to the Pentagon Papers! How could the media be in cahoots with the government and the politicians when they had been know to blow the whistle on them?
Back to our case in point, if one zooms out a little, and takes a big picture view like the total number of votes occurring in the last several election cycles, there is certainly ample, prima facie reason to question the narrative. It will be interesting to see if this narrative gets much visibility as it potentially crumbles to dust over time.
Here's another recent article on the topic.
