Rigged

Rigged by Mollie Hemingway

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This book is worth getting and keeping as a reality check against the retcon gaslighting that we have been exposed to since 2016. Most of what author Mollie Hemingway documents is well-known and well-established for anyone who was paying attention, but she puts together the story of the 2020 election and sheds light on some things that were previously obscured by corrupt, partisan journalists.

Hemingway makes the point that voting fraud is hard to catch after the fact. The defense against voter fraud is the safeguards put in place prior to the election. In that regard, she notes that up until 2020, it was universally accepted by everyone that mail-in voting was uniquely susceptible to fraud, but that this changed faster than you could say “We've always been at war with Eastasia” when a vast swath of Letist organizations coordinated to defeat Trump.

This might seem to be conspiracy theorizing like Hillary Clinton's “Vast Rightwing Conspiracy,” if not for the fact that it was explicitly celebrated in detail in a post-election article in Time magazine:

“Time would, of course, disingenuously frame this effort as an attempt to “oppose Trump's assault on democracy,” even as Time reporter Molly Ball noted this shadow campaign “touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding.” The funding enabled the country's sudden rush to mail-in balloting, which Ball described as “a revolution in how people vote.”113

The funding from Democratic donors to public election administrators was revolutionary. The Democrats' network of nonprofit activist groups embedded into the nation's electoral structure through generous grants from Democratic donors. They helped accomplish the Democrats' vote-by-mail strategy from the inside of the election process. It was as if the Dallas Cowboys were paying the National Football League's referee staff and conducting all of their support operations. No one would feel confident in games won by the Cowboys in such a scenario.

Hemingway, Mollie Ziegler. Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections (pp. 36-37). Regnery Publishing. Kindle Edition.

There are some details in this book that were not ventilated before the election. For example, I was stunned by how much money was targeted to Biden districts through government apparatus by wealthy Leftists. I was puzzled by the lack of transparency in accounting for voting procedures in Arizona and the concomitant fact that local governments had outsourced or privatized core democracy to private businesses. This was only the tip of the iceberg:

“What happened in Green Bay by means of the large grant from Zuckerberg also happened in countless Democrat-run cities across the country. Cities and counties took money from the left-wing Center for Tech and Civic Life to help with elections. The strings attached to the money required officials to work with “partner organizations” to massively expand mail-in voting and staff their operation with activists. These partner organizations were all left-wing groups that then ran a Democratic get-out-the-vote operation through the election offices themselves.

It was a genius plan. And because no one ever imagined that a coordinated operation could pull off the privatization of the election system, laws were not built to combat it. In fact, nobody even really figured it out until Ball's article and the emails in Green Bay came to light months after the fact.

Hemingway, Mollie Ziegler. Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections (pp. 222-223). Regnery Publishing. Kindle Edition.

It is one thing for private entities to privately support their candidates, but when private players put their thumb on the scale through the government, then that is fascism. One can only imagine how much the left would scream about “voter suppression” if the tables were turned.

Also, it appears that suspicions that the 2020 riots were politically motivated were correct. It was obvious, but it moves from obvious to confirmed:

“A coalition of “resistance” groups called the Fight Back Table began to plan scenarios about how to secure victory for Democrats.78 They gathered liberal activists across the country into something called the Democracy Defense Coalition to further plan and strategize. Podhorzer put together a network that included “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.”79 Tellingly, Ball reported that the BLM riots were a key part of their effort to impact the election, as the leaders of these groups “drew energy from the summer's racial-justice protests, many of whose leaders were a key part of the liberal alliance.”

In April 2020, Podhorzer began hosting hours-long Zoom sessions every week to coordinate the effort to secure the 2020 election for Biden. “The meetings became the galactic center for a constellation of operatives across the left who shared overlapping goals but didn't usually work in concert,” Ball wrote.80 “The first task was overhauling America's balky election infrastructure—in the middle of a pandemic.”81

Hemingway, Mollie Ziegler. Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections (pp. 208-209). Regnery Publishing. Kindle Edition.

We all saw all of this happening while being gaslighted. Based on what we saw, we should be concerned about democracy. This book provides the receipts for those who don't want to live in Big Brother's world.