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BUSTED: The Inside Story of How the Kamala Harris Campaign Manipulates Reddit (And Breaks the Rules) to Control the Platform

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For years, many have speculated that Democrat political candidates may be filling social media with fake posts to deceive the public and make their campaigns and causes seem more popular than they are. These claims have often been dismissed, citing that Democrat voters are already more likely to be on the internet compared to their not-as-tech-savvy Republican counterparts. This would suggest that the constant flood of left-leaning content on websites such as Reddit was merely a reflection of the userbase. However, many people simply couldn’t shake the feeling that something was just off, especially in the run up to major elections. Despite my fervent belief that something was amiss, I never had any direct proof that Democrats were actively manipulating social media.

That all changed two weeks ago, when X user @jessiprincey replied to one of my posts with a screenshot from a Discord server, seemingly related to the Harris-Walz campaign:

I immediately messaged Jess, and soon received a link to the Discord server where this operation was taking place. What I’d find there went far beyond algorithmic manipulation. I discovered massive “astroturfing” campaigns operating across multiple platforms. “Astroturfing” is a political and marketing term that describes creating swarms of coordinated and/or paid messages and posts to deceptively create the illusion of support from ordinary people. Essentially, “astroturfing” is the opposite of grassroots support.

In this case, there is a team of volunteers who spam social media with posts that specifically promote Kamala. They then have other users pretend to be random individuals who just happened across the post and decided to comment. It’s no different than a shady company paying a team to write a bunch of fake Amazon reviews about their product to make it appear to be a better and more popular product than it is.

On Amazon, that might result in a product getting more sales. In a U.S. election, it could mean that the falsely advertised candidate receives more votes. This behavior is not only incredibly dishonest, but in many cases, it directly violates the Terms of Service they’ve agreed to by operating on certain social media platforms. (Read more from “BUSTED: The Inside Story of How the Kamala Harris Campaign Manipulates Reddit (And Breaks the Rules) to Control the Platform” HERE)

Kamala Harris’ ‘Closing Argument’ Speech Went Exactly as You’d Expect

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On Tuesday night, Vice President Kamala Harris gave her “closing argument” speech at the Ellipse in Washington, DC, with the White House in the background. Although President Joe Biden was watching the speech, he alerted reporters earlier in the day that he would not be there in person and would not preview any of the speech. The speech that Harris gave was very much more of the same of what we’ve heard before, including with how she went after former and potentially future President Donald Trump.

Harris mentioned Trump’s name over a dozen times in her speech, which was approximately half an hour long. The opening moments of Harris’ speech mentioned Trump, in fact, after telling the crowd that “this election is more than just a choice between two parties and two different parties. It is a choice about whether we have a country rooted in freedom for every American, or ruled by chaos and division.”

In something of an amusing moment, which the Trump campaign quickly picked up on, sirens could be heard in the background as Harris claimed, “tonight, I will speak to everyone about the choice and the stakes in this election.”

She then claimed, “we know who Donald Trump is,” as she rambled about one of her favorite talking points: January 6, all while sirens could still be heard.

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‘Disqualifying’: Harris and Walz Both Keep Equating Trump Supporters to Nazis

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Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) have had a nasty habit lately of insulting not just the Trump-Vance ticket, but also those who are voting to elect the former president once more. Walz was the architect of referring to Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) as “weird,” and now he’s repeatedly referred to Trump supporters as “Nazis” after former and potentially future President Donald Trump held a rally at Madison Square Garden almost 86 years after the Nazis held such a rally at MSG, when it was at a different location in New York City. Harris has refused to call out her running mate for such remarks, a move the Trump-Vance campaign refers to as “disqualifying,” in addition to “disgusting” and “shameful.”

Walz . . . insisted on making the comparison to Nazis while at a pro-abortion rally in the swing state of Nevada over the weekend, speaking about “a direct parallel.” While speaking to a reporter on Tuesday, Walz cowardly tried to dance around his response as to if he stood by those remarks.

“You were comparing that rally to a Nazi rally,” asked a reporter. “Look, I’m comparing it to the hate that came out of this and I think they confirm that,” Walz tried to offer. As the reporter asked to confirm Walz stood by such a comparison, Walz responded, “look, the rally, you saw it for yourself, I’ll let the American public make the decision of what they saw.”

Harris herself was also asked if she stood by such comments during a Tuesday interview with a local news outlet. “Do you compare that, do you find that similar comparison,” the reporter asked, mentioning he had also spoken with Walz.

“Listen, this election is in seven days and I think the American people have a very clear choice,” Harris began by answering, despite how that has absolutely nothing to do with the direct question that was asked of her. The question was also not about Trump, but about Walz, her own running mate. “And on one hand you have Donald Trump who is constantly fanning the flames of division and hate, who is trying to have the American people point their fingers at each other or my leadership, which is founded on a lived experience that the vast majority of us have more in common than separate us. We want to come together as a country and have leaders who know how to work across the aisle. We certainly don’t want leaders like Donald Trump, who talk about the American people as enemies within.”

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‘Little Worried’: Fmr Obama Advisor Raises Concerns That Harris’ Closing Message Could Alienate Swing Voters

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Former Obama advisor Tommy Vietor expressed concerns Tuesday on his podcast about Vice President Kamala Harris’ closing message on former President Donald Trump, suggesting her labeling him a fascist might alienate undecided swing voters.

Over the past week, corporate media and the Harris campaign have amplified comparisons of Trump to Hitler, following comments from Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff, John Kelly, who told The New York Times and The Atlantic that Trump “met the definition of a fascist” and reportedly admired figures like Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. On “Pod Save America,” Vietor voiced his concern over this messaging, saying the tone has become “mixed,” sounding “partisan and hyperbolic.”

“I’m a little worried about the balance of the moment and not because of the message testing of ads. It’s just because you have to ask yourself what is breaking through in the closing days, and I do think it is primarily this conversation about Trump and fascism,” Vietor said. “I think it’s valuable to say the top people that worked for him don’t trust him to be president again — I think that’s alarming new information, probably for a lot of people. But it’s gotten mixed in with conversations about praising Hitler’s generals and things that I think just sound partisan and hyperbolic, and a lot of people brush it off.”

One of Vietor’s co-hosts then stepped in to defend the Harris campaign’s rhetoric, noting that CNN’s Anderson Cooper had raised the topic of Trump being called a fascist. Vietor clarified that while he wasn’t placing blame on anyone for focusing on the subject, he emphasized that swing voters might be more concerned about the economy than this issue. (Read more from “‘Little Worried’: Fmr Obama Advisor Raises Concerns That Harris’ Closing Message Could Alienate Swing Voters” HERE)

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Trump: Kamala Harris Is Running a Campaign of ‘Absolute Hate’ (VIDEO)

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Former President Donald Trump said Vice President Kamala Harris is running a “campaign of absolute hate” and her divisive rhetoric toward him is “shameful and really inexcusable” after facing two assassination attempts in recent months.

Trump was highly critical of Harris, who called him “fascist” this week, during a press conference at his luxurious Mar-a-Lago resort on Tuesday morning.

“She’s running on a campaign of demoralization and really a campaign of destruction,” Trump said. “But really, perhaps more than anything else, it’s a campaign of hate, a campaign of absolute hate.”

He then zoned in on the divisive rhetoric Harris has used in her closing argument.

“After two assassination attempts in just over three months, her lies and her slanders are very shameful and really inexcusable,” he said.

(Read more from “Trump: Kamala Harris Is Running a Campaign of ‘Absolute Hate’ (VIDEO)” HERE)

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Tim Walz Accused of Pushing Chinese Communist Party Official’s Daughter to Brink of Suicide During Storm-Tossed Love Affair in 1980s

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By New York Post. Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz had a love affair with the daughter of a Chinese Communist Party official during his teaching stint in Foshan that was so stormy it drove her to the brink of suicide, The Post has learned.

Jenna Wang, 59, told The Post in a phone interview on Monday that she had fallen head over heels for the now-Minnesota governor when he was a young high school English instructor in Foshan, Guangdong Province, China.

Wang expected the passionate 1989 affair to end in a proposal — but instead, it resulted in a breakup that made her consider taking her own life.

“I was deeply insulted, hurt and I had to leave that place, because many people knew that we had a relationship,” Wang explained, saying that Walz had implied that he intended to marry her.

That included sending Wang letters after returning to the US over the following summer and even asking for a passport-sized photo of her to be sent back to Denver, she said, implying that Walz was helping her to obtain a visa.

“His lack of character, as a man, a responsible person who had worked in education or [the] military,” she added. “I thought he also loved me. I loved him.” (Read more from “Tim Walz Accused of Pushing Chinese Communist Party Official’s Daughter to Brink of Suicide During Storm-Tossed Love Affair in 1980s” HERE)

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Walz Reportedly Had Romantic Relationship With China’s Wang in His 20’s

By Daily Caller. Kamala Harris’ running mate Tim Walz allegedly had a passionate romance with the daughter of a high-ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official, the Daily Mail reported Monday.

Walz engaged in the secret tryst with Jenna Wang, then an English language teacher, during his 1989 teaching stint in the Chinese city Foshan, she told the Daily Mail.

Wang claimed the pair did not show any public affection to each other as it apparently would have bothered Wang’s father, Bin Hui, a high-ranking CCP official and chairman of a labor union in her home city Guilin, according to the outlet. Walz married Gwen Whipple in 1994.

“My father would have been very, very angry and sad if he had found out,” Wang told the outlet.

The pair allegedly slept together and spent nights romantically dancing to the song “Careless Whisper” by George Michael, according to the outlet. (Read more from “Walz Reportedly Had Romantic Relationship With China’s Wang in His 20’s” HERE)

Kamala Harris Tries To Touch Razor-Sharp Silicon During Tour of Semiconductor Factory: ‘Straight Out of Veep’

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Vice President Kamala Harris was told to keep her hands to herself Monday during a tour of a semiconductor manufacturing facility in Michigan, where the allure of touching “shiny” silicon almost caused a serious injury.

“Here is, actually, a harvested U-rod,” an employee at Hemlock Semiconductors in Saginaw informed Harris, 60, as she approached a large piece of silicon covered in what appeared to be plastic wrap.

“Can I touch it?” the Democratic nominee asked as her right hand hovered over the metalloid rod.

“Do not touch it,” the factory worker immediately responded. . .

“Please do not touch any of the poly,” the hard-hat wearing employee added as Harris approached an enticing plate of silicon crystal chunks, just beyond the U-rod display. (Read more from “Kamala Harris Tries To Touch Razor-Sharp Silicon During Tour of Semiconductor Factory: ‘Straight Out of Veep’” HERE)

Will the Corrupt News Media Accept Election Results if Trump Wins, or Will They Start a War?

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It was such a fun time last week watching the perpetual drama queens that make up our national news media boil with rage over two newspapers declining to issue meaningless campaign endorsements. But it also revealed something unsettling about the unhealthy degree of emotional investment they have in this race.

Will the media accept the outcome of the election if Donald Trump wins? It’s far from a foregone conclusion that they will. There’s a strong argument they didn’t the last time Trump won. Why should anyone expect them to accept it this time around?

It’s a question these homely nerds are inclined to ask every elected Republican in the shallowest way possible — some variation of, “Will you accept the outcome of this election no matter what?” (I think every restaurant server from now on should ask Jake Tapper the moment he’s seated, “Will you accept the way your food comes out no matter what? It’s a yes or no question.”)

After the appalling behavior they displayed last week, now is a very crucial time to ask them the same thing. If they were this hysterical over management at The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times deciding there would be no endorsement of Kamala Harris this campaign cycle — the type of endorsement that hasn’t mattered for decades — how can they be expected to acknowledge a Trump victory? And if they won’t, what will it mean to the people who are still influenced by them? They will have essentially been told their elections and their government are invalid. These are the things civil wars are made of.

As silly as the media have made themselves look, they’re dead serious. That a major news publication wouldn’t throw its weight behind the non-Trump candidate means nothing to normal people, but reporters in Washington and New York aren’t normal people. Look how they talk. They say things like “Democracy dies in darkness,” and we laugh because it’s corny. But they believe in earnest it’s a sacred oath binding their entire life’s meaning to a cause: maintaining the Washington and corporate power structure to their financial benefit. To hell with everyone else. (Read more from “Will the Corrupt News Media Accept Election Results if Trump Wins, or Will They Start a War?” HERE)

From Fake Accents To Crowd Silence at Rallies, the Cringe From Kamala Is off the Charts

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Vice President Kamala Harris’ increased desperation in the final days of her campaign has truly become cringeworthy. As Townhall has been covering, the Democratic nominee has been prone to using different accents based on the audience she’s trying to pander to. Harris not only used a preacher’s accent on Sunday while at a church in Philadelphia, but she also went for a fake black accent during her appearance on the “Club Shay Shay Podcast.”

“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning,” Harris declared in a fake accent while at the Church Christian Compassion, awkwardly raising her arms and gesturing like a preacher. “The path may seem hard and work might be heavy but joy cometh in the morning, and church mourning is on its way!”

Given how Harris mocked college students at her rally in Wisconsin earlier this month for daring to say “Jesus is Lord” by telling them they were at “the wrong rally,” and cackling as they were kicked out, it’s odd to see her pandering to voters at churches. When she went to a “souls to the polls” event at a church in Georgia last Sunday, attendees who dared to take issue with the Democratic nominee were removed.

Harris faced backlash in Philadelphia as well, though. At one point of her speech, she was interrupted, which she reacted rather awkwardly to and even appeared unsure of herself. “That’s why we fight for our democracy,” she awkwardly offered, claiming, “every voice is important,” despite how her actions towards Christian rally goers would suggest otherwise.

(Read more from “From Fake Accents To Crowd Silence at Rallies, the Cringe From Kamala Is off the Charts” HERE)

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Top Archbishop Says Kamala Is ‘Infernal Monster Who Obeys Satan’

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Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former Vatican envoy to the United States who was excommunicated in August, wrote an open letter to American Catholics to convey a clear message to the community:

“Kamala Harris is an infernal monster who obeys Satan”, Vigano said just weeks out of from the US election, with Donald Trump currently leading in the polls – especially among Catholics. . .

“Even in conditions of relative normality,” he begins, “the millions of American citizens must exercise their vote as a moral duty.”

The excommunicated explains that this election is very different from previous US elections, as it’s not just a choice between two candidates but a choice “between two radically opposed ways of conceiving the government of your nation: you are called to choose between democracy and dictatorship, between freedom and slavery.”

Although the archbishop does not explicitly endorse Donald Trump, he notes that despite the former president’s significant issues regarding abortion and fertility, Trump’s aim still aligns with the common good and the protection of citizens’ fundamental freedoms. (Read more from “Top Archbishop Says Kamala Is ‘Infernal Monster Who Obeys Satan’” HERE)