Re: Tucker Carlson
Kyle Becker
@kylenabecker
The Most Important Interview of 2024: How Big Tech 'Pre-Rigged' the Trump-Biden Election
In Tucker's interview of @MIkeBenzCyber, the tech expert goes into Big Tech's pre-rigging of the election
in early 2020 to 'fortify' the expected Biden victory.
Mike Benz, with sweeping scope and breathtaking detail, breaks down the insidious operation to ensure that Americans could not openly question the mail-in ballots that were critical for Biden being declared the 'winner' in crucial swing states.
After Benz explains how the tech censorship machine cut its teeth in Europe by suppressing nationalist-populist movements that were labeled as 'Russia-adjacent,' he reveals in eye-opening detail how the U.S.' defense-IC complex worked with the CIA-funded NGO 'blob', hard-left academics at universities, and Big Tech to 'fortify' the 2020 elections.
"But in the US it was all Trump. And so essentially what they said is, well, the only other domestic intelligence, equity we have in the US besides the FBI is the DHS. So we are going to essentially take the CIA's power to rig and bribe foreign media organizations, which is the power they've had since the day they were born in 1947. And we're going to combine that with power with the domestic jurisdiction of the FBI by putting it at DHS."
"So DHS was basically deputized. It was empowered through this obscure little cybersecurity agency to have
the combined powers that the CIA has abroad with the jurisdiction of the FBI at home. And the way they did this, how did... an obscure little cybersecurity agency get this power... was they did a funny little series of switcheroos."
"So this little thing called CISA — they didn't call it the Disinformation Governance Board, they didn't call it the Censorship Agency — they gave it an obscure little name that no one would notice called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, who its founder said, 'we care about security so much, it's in our name twice.' Everybody sort of closed their eyes and pretended that's what it was."
"But it was created by Act of Congress in 2018 because of the perceived threat that Russia had hacked the 2016 election, had physically hacked it. And so we needed the cybersecurity power to be able to deal with that. And essentially on the heels of a CIA memo on January 6th, 2017 and a same day DHS executive order on January 6th, 2017, arguing that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election and
a DHS mandate saying that elections are now critical infrastructure. You had this new power within DHS to say that cybersecurity attacks on elections are now our purview."
"And then they did two cute things.
One, they said, mis-, dis-, and and mal- information online are a form of cybersecurity attack. They are a cyber attack because they are happening online. And they said, 'well, actually Russian disinformation is we're actually protecting democracy and elections'. We don't need a Russian predicate after Russiagate died."
"So just like that, you had this cybersecurity agency be able to legally make the argument that
your tweets about mail-in ballots, if you undermine public faith and confidence in them as a legitimate form of voting, was now you were now conducting a 'cyber attack' on US critical infrastructure by articulating 'misinformation' on Twitter and just like that —"
Tucker: "Wait, so in other words, complaining about election fraud is the same as taking down our power grid."
Benz: "Yes, you could literally be on your toilet seat at 9:30 on a Thursday night and tweet, 'I think that mail-in ballots are illegitimate.' And you were essentially then caught up in the crosshairs of the Department of Homeland Security classifying you as conducting a cyber attack on US critical infrastructure because you were doing 'misinformation' online in the cyber realm."
"And 'misinformation is a cyber attack on democracy when it undermines public faith and confidence in our democratic elections and our democratic institutions.' They would end up going far beyond that.
They would actually define democratic institutions as being another thing that was a cybersecurity attack to undermine."
"And lo and behold, the mainstream media is considered a democratic institution — that would come later."
"What ended up happening was in advance of the 2020 election, starting in April of 2020, although this goes back before, you had this essentially Never Trump, Neo-Con, Republican DHS working with essentially NATO on the national security side and essentially the DNC, if you will, to use DHS as the launching point for a government coordinated mass censorship campaign spanning every single social media platform on earth in order to pre-censor the ability to dispute the legitimacy of mail-in ballots."
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https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/17...850242550?s=20
Kyle Becker
@kylenabecker
"And here's how they did this. They aggregated four different institutions. Stanford University, the University of Washington, a company called Graphika and the Atlanta Council. Now all four of these institutions, the centers within them were essentially Pentagon cutouts. You had at the Stanford Internet Observatory, it was actually run by Michael McFaul. If you know Michael McFaul, he was the US Ambassador to Russia under the Obama administration."
"And he personally authored
a seven-step playbook for how to successfully orchestrate a color revolution. That is, and part of that involved maintaining total control over media and social media, juicing up the civil society outfits, calling elections illegitimate in order to, now, mind you, all of these people were professional Russiagaters and professional election delegitimizers in 2016. And then I'll get that in a sec. So Stanford University, nominally the Stanford Observatory under Michael McFaul was run by Alex Stamos, who was formerly a Facebook executive who coordinated with ODNI and with respect to Russiagate taking down Russian propaganda at Facebook."
"So this is another liaison essentially to the national security state. And under Alex Stamos at Stanford Internet Observatory was Renée DiResta, who started her career in the CIA and wrote the Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian disinformation. And there's a lot more there that I'll leave, I'll get to another time."
"But the next institution was the University of Washington, which is essentially the Bill Gates University in Seattle who is headed by Kate Starbird, who is basically three generations of military brass who got her PhD in crisis informatics, essentially doing social media surveillance for the Pentagon and getting DARPA funding and working essentially with the national security state, then repurposed to take on mail-in ballots."
"The third firm Graphika got $7 million in Pentagon grants and got their start as part of the Pentagon's Minerva initiative. The Minerva Initiative is the Psychological Warfare Research Center of the Pentagon."
"This group was doing social media spying and narrative mapping for the Pentagon until the 2016 election happened, and then were repurposed into a partnership with the Department of Homeland Security to censor 22 million Trump tweets, pro-Trump tweets about mail-in ballots."
"And then the fourth institution, as I mentioned, was the Atlantic Council who's got seven CIA directors on the board. So one after another. It is exactly what Ben Rhodes described during the Obama era as "the Blob," the Foreign Policy Establishment. It's the Defense Department, the State Department or the CIA every single time. And of course this was because they were threatened by Trump's foreign policy."
"So while much of the censorship looks like it's coming domestically, it's actually by our foreign-facing department of dirty tricks, color revolution blob, who are professional government toppers, who were then basically descended on the 2020 election."
"Now they did this, they explicitly said the head of this election integrity partnership on tape, and my foundation clipped them, and it's been played before Congress and it's a part of the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit now, but they explicitly said on tape that 'they were set up to do what the government was banned from doing itself,' and then they articulated a multi-step framework in order to coerce all the tech companies to take censorship actions. "
"They said on tape the tech companies would not have done [it] but for their pressure, which involved using threats of government force because they were the deputized arm of the government. They had a formal partnership with the DHS. They were able to use DHS'S proprietary domestic disinformation switchboard to immediately talk to top brass at all of the tech companies for takedowns."
"And they bragged on tape about how they got the tech companies to all systematically adopt a new terms of service speech violation ban called 'delegitimization,' which meant any tweet, any YouTube video, any Facebook post, any TikTok video, any discord posts, any Twitch video, anything on the internet that undermined public faith and confidence in the use of mail-in ballots or early voting drop boxes or ballot tabulation issues on Election Day was a prima fascia terms of service violation policy under this new delegitimization policy that they only adopted because of pass-through government pressure from the election integrity partnership, which they about on tape, including the grid that they used to do this, and simultaneously invoking threats of government breaking them up or government stopping doing favors for the tech companies unless they did this, as well as inducing crisis PR by working with their media allies."
"And they said the DHS could not do that themselves. And so they set up this basically, constellation of State Department, Pentagon and IC networks to run this pre-censorship campaign, which by their own math had 22 million tweets on Twitter alone, and mind you, they did this on 15 platforms. So this is hundreds of millions of posts, which were all scanned and banned or throttled so that they could not be amplified or they exist in a sort of limited state purgatory or had these frictions affixed to them in the form of 'fact checking labels' where you couldn't actually click through the thing or you had to, it was an inconvenience to be able to share it."
"Now, they did this seven months before the election because at the time they were worried about the perceived legitimacy of a Biden victory in the case of a so-called 'Red Mirage-Blue Shift event.'"
"They knew the only way that Biden would win mathematically was through the disproportionate Democrat use of mail-in ballots. They knew there would be a crisis because it was going to look extremely weird if Trump looked like he won by seven states and then three days later it comes out actually the election switched. I mean that would put the election crisis of the Bush Gore election on a level of steroids that the National Security state said, 'well, the public will not be prepared for. So what we need to do is we need to, in advance, we need to pre-censor the ability to even question the legitimacy..."
Tucker: "Wait, may I ask you to pause? So what you're saying is, what you're suggesting is, they knew the outcome of the election seven months before it was held."
Benz: "It looks very bad."
Tucker: "Yes, Mike, it does look very bad." [*Laughs in Tucker.*]
Benz: "And especially when you combine this with the fact that this is right on the heels of the impeachment. The Pentagon-led, CIA-led impeachment. It was Eric Ciaramella from the CIA, and it was the Vindmans from the Pentagon, who led the impeachment of Trump in late 2019 over an alleged phone call around withholding Ukraine aid. This same network, which came straight out of the Pentagon hybrid-warfare military censorship network, created after the first Ukraine crisis in 2014, were the lead architects of the Ukraine impeachment in 2019, and then essentially came back on steroids as part of the 2020 election censorship operation."
"But from their perspective, I mean it certainly looks like the perfect crime. These were the people, DHS at the time had actually federalized much of the National Election Administration through this January 6th, 2017 executive order from outgoing Obama DHS head Jed Johnson, which essentially wrapped all 50 states up into a formal DHS partnership."
"So DHS was simultaneously in charge of the administration of the election in many respects, and the censorship of anyone who challenged the administration of the election. This is like putting essentially the defendant of a trial as the judge and jury of the trial..."
Tucker: "But you're not describing democracy. I mean, you're describing a country in which democracy is impossible."
Benz:
"What I'm essentially describing is military rule. What's happened with the rise of the censorship industry is a total inversion of the idea of democracy itself. Democracy sort of draws its legitimacy from the idea that it is rule by consent of the people being ruled. That is, it's not really being ruled by an overlord because the government is actually just our will expressed by our consent with who we vote for."
"The whole push after the 2016 election and after Brexit and after a couple of other social media run elections that went the wrong way from what the State Department wanted, like the 2016 Philippines election, was to completely invert everything that we described as being the underpinnings of a Democrat society in order to deal with the threat of free speech on the internet.
And what they essentially said is, 'we need to redefine democracy from being about the will of the voters to being about the sanctity of democratic institutions."
"And who are the democratic institutions? Oh, it's us. It's the military, it's NATO, it's the IMF and the World Bank. It's the mainstream media. It is the NGOs. And of course, these NGOs are largely State Department funded or IC funded. It's essentially all of the elite establishments that were under threat from the rise of domestic populism that declared their own consensus to be the new definition of democracy. Because if you define democracy as being the strength of democratic institutions rather than a focus on the will of the voters, then what you're left with is essentially democracy is just the consensus-building architecture within the Democrat institutions themselves."
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). Anyway, I think that truckers and Tucker both need to have a high sense of self-worth. If that bothers some people, perhaps those people ought to look inward for answers. 
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