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For years, Americans were shamed for even asking questions about the 2020 election. They were told questioning the “fairest election” in all the land made them dangerous, unhinged, or somehow anti-democracy. The media and the left treated the most sane curiosity as a threat. “Believe in the process,” they said. “Don’t ask questions,” they warned. And if you dared to disobey, you were branded an election denier and kicked out of polite society with a boot up your butt.

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But here’s the thing: the very reasonable and understandable questions never went away, because the 2020 story never made sense. The sudden explosion of mass mail-in ballots, late-night vote dumps, and the way the map flipped after Election Day. And now, after 2024, a new question has become impossible to ignore: where did all those supposed Biden voters go? Did they just disappear in a poof?

The skepticism surrounding 2020 was never irrational. Especially when the same people who demanded unquestioning trust spent years shamelessly denying every election outcome that didn’t float their boats.

What was once taboo to even discuss is now being examined openly by analysts, journalists, and national security experts. And one of the most detailed explanations of how the narrative around 2020 was managed is now coming from Mike Benz.

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Mike Benz lays out what he argues was a coordinated effort to shape public perception around the 2020 election well before a single vote was cast, and as always, at the center of everything is CNN.

The claim centers on a concept known as the “Red Mirage, Blue Shift,” the idea that the election would appear to favor Trump on election night, only to flip days later as mail-in ballots were counted. According to Benz, this outcome wasn’t just anticipated. It was actively planned for, normalized, and protected from scrutiny through coordinated media messaging and censorship efforts.

Wall Street Apes:

This is so insane

Mike Benz literally just proved CNN worked with Democrats to cover up the steal of the 2020 election

There was a plan called ‘Red Mirage Blue Shift event’

The 2020 election would appear Red on election night, but Democrats would win it the next day. CNN even wrote an entire article on their plan 2 MONTHS BEFORE the election happened, clearly indicating their involvement

“It gets back to their one chance for winning the election in 2020, which is what they called the Red Mirage Blue Shift event.

This is CNN, for example, September 1, 2020, month before the Whitmer fending, two months before the election, four months before January 6th, deciphering the Red Mirage and Blue Shift uncertainty surrounding the election results. (Shown in video)

This was what CISA and the censorship operation to censor the 2020 election was all about. It was to pre-censor anything that might question or quote, de-legitimize an upcoming miraculous come from behind victory the day after or In the days after, where it would be a red mirage, Trump would win on election night, but then it would shift blue and Biden would win. They knew that was Biden’s only path to victory,

It would look to all hell, (very obviously stolen to anyone with a brain) so they had to pre-censor five months before that happened, starting in June 2020.

Any criticism on social media, that’s why you got banned for questioning mass mail in ballots. Because high ranking government officials at the Department of Homeland Security teamed up with their outside blob mob, who are all career specialists in toppling governments, and know that the crux of it is perceptions I’m not sure I understand the question.”

Again, none of this is about blind acceptance. This is about honesty about what actually happened, who knew what, and why questioning obvious irregularities was treated as some moral crime.

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If Benz is even partially right on this, then the story of 2020 isn’t just about sketchy ballots. It’s about narrative control and preemptively declaring “certain questions” were illegitimate before they could even be asked. And it’s about why so many Americans, across all political lines, still feel like they were never given straight answers.

While Benz focuses on how the narrative was managed once ballots started coming in, there’s another piece of the puzzle that explains why so much effort went into shaping public perception in the first place. Months before the election, a group calling itself the Transition Integrity Project was already gaming out what would happen if Trump didn’t immediately concede.

That might sound harmless enough. But it wasn’t.

The Transition Integrity Project was introduced as some bipartisan “war game” meant to protect precious democracy. But of course, all its scenarios pointed in one direction. A Trump victory, or even a contested result, was treated not as a “democratic” outcome but as a national crisis requiring mass mobilization, censorship, and a whole slew of other extraordinary measures.

Revolver:

The author of this book, conveniently titled “The Democracy Playbook” just happens to have also participated in the Transition Integrity Project.

Now that we are armed with the Color Revolution framework, and the specific role that electoral legitimacy plays in that model, we are in a strong position to evaluate the true agenda behind the Transition Integrity Project’s “War Game” scenario suggesting that Trump won’t concede the election. The title of Rosa Brooks’s Washington Post piece is suggestive, prompting us to wonder whether it is a prediction or a threat: “What’s the Worst that Could Happen: The Election Will Likely Spark Violence and a Constitutional Crisis:”

A landslide for Joe Biden resulted in a relatively orderly transfer of power. Every other scenario we looked at involved street-level violence and political crisis.

Translation: vote for Biden, or else.

Soon, Attorney General William P. Barr opens an investigation into unsubstantiated allegations of massive vote-by-mail fraud and ties between Democratic officials and antifa. In Michigan and Wisconsin, where Biden has won the official vote and Democratic governors have certified slates of pro-Biden electors, the Trump campaign persuades Republican-controlled legislatures to send rival pro-Trump slates to Congress for the electoral college vote.

Translation: despite severe problems with mail in voting, any effort by the Justice Department to ensure the integrity of a mass mail-in system will be interpreted in advance as part of an authoritarian coup on the part of Trump. In other words, if Trump takes any reasonable measures to prevent the Color Revolution coup against him, he will automatically be acting in an authoritarian manner justifying said Color Revolution against him. Funny how that works, isn’t it?

In every exercise, both teams sought to mobilize their supporters to take to the streets. Team Biden repeatedly called for peaceful protests, while Team Trump encouraged provocateurs to incite violence, then used the resulting chaos to justify sending federalized Guard units or active-duty military personnel into American cities to “restore order,”

Translation: No matter how violent these “peaceful protests” become, any effort by Trump to establish authority will be used to confirm the pre-determined conclusion that he is an authoritarian and that extraordinary measures must be taken to remove him from office.

Social media platforms can commit to protecting the democratic process, by rapidly removing or correcting false statements spread by foreign or domestic disinformation campaigns and by ensuring that their platforms aren’t used to incite or plan violence.

Translation: Social media must be fully censored leading up to the election. Facebook is already doing its part, for instance, by aggressively censoring any mention of Kyle Rittenhouse that suggests he acted in self-defense (he did).

When people unite to demand democracy and the rule of law, even repressive regimes can be stopped in their tracks.

Trump’s is a “repressive regime” and therefore extraordinary measures usually reserved for repressive regimes overseas–namely, color revolutions–are justified to prevent him from taking office. Note that this sentiment was echoed explicitly in a similar “roundtable” discussion on the election done by the New York Times a little over a week ago. One of the contributors, Jamelle Bouie, spelled it out quite explicitly:

I think the Democratic party and its affiliated institutions and organizations need to be prepping basically a defense of ballot counting, sort of a nationwide effort to stop that tampering. I think there needs to be plans for protests and demonstrations. This is going to sound very hyperbolic, but I think that we have to think of the task of getting Trump out as less of a traditional democratic transition and more of something akin to pushing an authoritarian regime out. [New York Times]

One does not “vote out” an authoritarian regime, or they are not authoritarian. Dictatorships are only overthrown, and Bouie’s statement is an explicit call to do exactly that.  The actually-peaceful process of voting must be supplemented–or supplanted–with “mostly peaceful protests” if the result isn’t correct. Which leads us to the next passage from Rosa Brooks:

Mass mobilization is no guarantee that our democracy will survive — but if things go as badly as our exercises suggest they might, a sustained, nonviolent protest movement may be America’s best and final hope.

Translation: Just in case Biden isn’t able to win fair and square, they have introduced a mail-in voting system that dramatically increases the likelihood of some type of contested election scenario. If that occurs, the outcome of the election will no longer be in the realm of democratic choice, where perhaps the forces against Trump have a disadvantage. Instead, the election becomes an issue of sustained mass mobilization of demonstrators capitalizing on every opportunity for escalation, a full court press by media demonizing every effort by Trump to restore order as authoritarian, and a transmission of the electoral process to court battles which disadvantage Trump.

There is of course one scenario, a very dark one, that remains unexplored. If the Color Revolution against Trump frames him as an authoritarian unwilling to leave office, the only alternative is to remove him by force. Both Al Gore and Joe Biden have already taken the extremely irresponsible and dangerous step of floating a military role in removing Trump should their Color Revolution not turn out the way they plan.

If Trump lost the election but refused to accept the results, Gore said he believes the military would intervene. He noted that under the parameters of the Constitution, Trump’s last day in office is Jan. 20, 2021. [Fox News]

So they are setting things up in such a way as to almost ensure that a clear winner will not exist on Election Day, and framing any refusal of President Trump to concede as grounds for military removal. This final stage of the Color Revolution is something that Rosa Brooks of the Transition Integrity Project has entertained for quite some time. The following excerpt is from a piece Rosa Brooks wrote shortly after the 2016 election, suggesting a fourth way to remove Trump from office before 2020.

The fourth possibility is one that until recently I would have said was unthinkable in the United States of America: a military coup, or at least a refusal by military leaders to obey certain orders. [Foreign Policy]

And this is how the Color Revolution operation against Trump and by extension against all of his supporters evidently concludes—with the possibility of a military coup.

So, when you put all of this together, it helps explain why questioning mail-in ballots was treated as a threat rather than a normal and totally understandable debate. That outcome was thought out and protected. Which is why any challenge to it, no matter how reasonable, was already pre-labeled as dangerous.

Which leads us to this next part… if anyone thinks President Trump has forgotten about 2020, they’re wrong.

While the media has tried to move on and pretend the questions surrounding that goofy election have been settled, Trump hasn’t. And now, he’s signaling that his team is preparing to release extensive evidence backing that 2020 was a total fraud.

Trump said his admin is sitting on “truckloads” of evidence related to election rigging, specifically surrounding that tsunami of mail-in ballots. He also singled out California, accusing state leadership of running elections so saturated with mail-in voting that the results are basically impossible to verify.

Wall Street Apes:

HUGE ‼️ Donald Trump says his administration is about to release “truckloads” of evidence PROVING the 2020 election was “RIGGED” by Democrats

He says he has evidence Gavin Newsom is rigging California elections with mail in ballots

“They’re professionals at cheating because we won in 2016 by a lot. The election was rigged in 2020. We have all the ammunition, all the stuff, and you’ll see it come out. It’s coming out in truckloads”

“California more than any other place is so rigged. It’s such a rigged election — If the vote in California was legitimate, which it’s not, they have 38 million ballots. Everything is mail-in voting. They mail out 38 million ballots, and they come in. Where the hell did they go, and where did they come from?

It’s a rigged election in California, because we would win California by a lot”

All of this combined makes the conversation, and the need for real investigation, unavoidable now. Too many questions remain, and too many people are no longer willing to pretend they don’t see them.

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