Posted on 06/30/2022 3:55:20 PM PDT by grundle
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
June 30, 2022
In 1993, I graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a bachelor’s degree in math, and a minor in computer science. Sometime during my four years at the school, I attended a speech by Dinesh D’Souza. The thing that I remember most about his speech was that he said he immigrated to the United States because he “wanted to live in a country where the poor people are fat.”
On the one hand, I did not vote for Trump. I voted for Libertarian Gary Johnson in 2016, and Libertarian Jo Jorgensen in 2020. So I’m not a Trump fan.
On the other hand, I don’t hate Trump the way so many Democrats do. I certainly don’t agree with their claim that he’s a Nazi. In fact, Trump supports the right of gun ownership by all law abiding adult citizens, whereas Hitler banned Jews from owning guns in 1938. So at least in that one regard, Trump is the exact opposite of a Nazi.
It seems to me that a lot of people are rating 2000 Mules based on whether or not they agree with its basic premise, which is that the 2020 U.S. Presidential election was stolen.
But that’s not how I’m rating this movie.
Instead, I’m rating this movie based on how good or bad it is, regardless of my own personal thoughts on its premise.
Now, in order to be transparent, I want to state that I do indeed believe the election was stolen. I first started thinking this on election night, when the mainstream media reported that election workers in Fulton County, Georgia, had “stopped counting votes for the night” due to a “burst water pipe.”
As soon as I first heard them say that, I knew they were cheating.
And here’s my proof that they were lying.
On the night of the election, CBS News aired a TV report called “Pipe burst in Georgia delays vote counting.”
You can watch it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C25DAAHZdEw
Also on the night of the election, ABC News tweeted: “The election department sent the ballot counters at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta home at 10:30 p.m., Regina Waller, the Fulton County public affairs manager for elections, tells ABC News.”
Here’s that tweet:
https://twitter.com/abcpolitics/status/1323846118208376834
However, official security video footage shows that after the Republican poll watchers and news reporters left the room where votes had been counted, a few election workers stay behind and continue counting votes.
And there is no visible water leak in the video.
You can see that video footage here:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/rPqQKvuFk473/
There’s only one reason for the election workers to lie about a bogus “burst water pipe,” and use that as an excuse to get the Republican poll watchers and news reporters to leave, and then the election workers themselves go back inside and continue counting the votes while no one else is in the room. They were cheating.
If you want to see me presenting a lot more evidence that the election was stolen, you can read my writing about it here:
https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2022/06/23/stop-the-steal-6/
So, I very much believe that the election was stolen.
But guess what?
I didn’t like 2000 Mules.
My biggest criticism of the movie, is that despite its repeated claims that these 2,000 “ballot traffickers” each put mail-in ballots into many different dropboxes, the movie never actually shows video footage of even one of these people depositing ballots into more than one dropbox.
Do you realize how ridiculous it is that they never show this?
If each of these people really did deposit ballots into many different dropboxes, then the movie should show us video footage of some of these people depositing ballots into multiple dropboxes.
But the movie never shows even one person doing that.
I’d like to see video footage of at least 20 different “ballot traffickers,” each depositing ballots into at least 10 different dropboxes.
And I’d like to see their faces.
Even when the movie did show some of these people dropping ballots into a single dropbox per person, they always blurred out their face. Apparently, they were worried about getting sued for defamation. But when someone is sued for defamation, the only thing they need to do in order to prove their innocence, is to show that what they said is true. So if they are so sure that this cheating happened, then why did they blur out their faces?
And since they have video footage of their faces as well as their license plates, and they also have their cell phone location data, they should know the names of these “ballot traffickers.” But they never, ever revealed any of their names in the movie. Again, if they are so sure that this cheating actually happened, they should not be afraid to show the names of the people who cheated.
So, thumbs down for me.
On the other hand, there are some smaller things that I did like about the movie.
The fact that these people are shown wearing gloves, which they remove immediately after depositing the ballots, suggests that they did indeed cheat. So that’s a point in praise of the film.
And some of these people are shown taking pictures of them holding their ballots right before depositing them in the dropboxes, so they can get paid. That’s another point in favor of the film.
And the single biggest evidence of cheating that’s shown in this movie is the nursing home patients who are obviously too sick to either vote or request an absentee ballot, and yet their relatives claim that the official government records show that they had indeed voted.
So there are some things in this movie that do show evidence of cheating.
But those things all receive only a small amount of the movie’s overall time.
The movie’s main premise is that each of these 2,000 “ballot traffickers” deposited ballots into multiple dropboxes. But despite this claim, not once in the entire movie, do we ever see video footage of any of these people dropping off ballots into more than one dropbox.
In other words, the people who made this movie are refusing to show us any video evidence whatsoever that backs up their primary claim.
And that’s why I can’t recommend this movie.
Oh yeah – another criticism that I have is that they never give equal time to their opponents. They never interviewed any experts who believe that there was no cheating. Because of their refusal to present the opposing point of view to any substantial degree, I have to say that this movie seems more like an infomercial than a documentary. I’ve seen a lot of documentaries. And I’ve seen a lot of infomercials. And I know how to tell the difference between the two. When a bunch of people all in the same room all have the exact same opinion, that’s not a documentary – it’s an infomercial.
So, while I believe that the election was indeed stolen, I think that 2000 Mules does a very bad job of making its case, and that this movie is, overall, a failure.
“On the one hand, I did not vote for Trump. I voted for Libertarian Gary Johnson in 2016, and Libertarian Jo Jorgensen in 2020. So I’m not a Trump fan.”
Idiocy.
Do you realize how ridiculous it is that they never show this?
Yes. Bingo.
Everyone on FR knows what you are, Leftwing FraudDenier.
He didn’t actually watch the movie: it showed several sequences where the same person showed up and deposited more ballots - Remember the postal worker using the USPS truck and then her personal car?
I have not seen the movie yet, but I think “Dan from Squirrel Hill” misses a huge part of the premise.
There is cell phone tracking data that pinpoints the same perps at lots of dropboxes with great precision and reliability. There is not video surviellance for all of them, because that particular type of evidence is not available. I beleive the videomakers spent $ millions for cell phone data because that is where the data is.
There was not a video crew following perps in the act. All the evidence had to be gathered months after the crime.
The cell phone tracking data is the same type of data used by the FBI to catch people who attended the J6 political rally.
“My biggest criticism of the movie is that despite its repeated claims that these 2,000 “ballot traffickers” each put mail-in ballots into many different dropboxes, the movie never actually shows video footage of even one of these people depositing ballots into more than one dropbox.”
Most of the drop boxes had no survaliance cameras, others had cameras but they were pointed away from the boxes. Some states such as Wisconsin had ZERO cameras. Most of the evidence is based on the geotracking of cell phones which incidentally, law enforcement uses ever single day and even the FBI has used it to track those on January 6th. I think this is all explained in the movie, I know it has been explained over and over again by D’Sousa responding to this criticism.
Does not matter on bit what any stupid movie or claims are.
The state legislatures determine voting rules wihtin each state and those states violated that by letting the judicial branches of the administrative branches change election rules in those states.
Roberts (SCOTUS) destroyed the equal protection clause of the US Constitution by refusing to hear the case.
TX etal V PA.
I don’t know what he’s talking about. They showed faces of mules and showed some mules at more than one dropbox. Maybe he thought he watched the movie but he really didn’t?
I may be mistaken, but I think I remember when the two principles from True the Vote were interviewed they indicated that getting video footage at various drop boxes was exceedingly difficult, sometimes because the mandated cameras were not installed or weren’t working, and sometimes because the relevant authorities would not release the footage.
So the cell phone tracking that they mostly relied on was admittedly largely circumstantial as evidence, but at least in my view, very strongly circumstantial.
Sure. All the “mules” are postal workers delivering mail-in ballots to county drop boxes and the “harvesting centers” are post offices and mail boxes.
I am guessing they have the video but would have made the documentary very long. These were people that dropped in 10 different boxes. Looking at perhaps a 5 or so long film. There is no explanation for these mules doing what they did so for me no need for a rebuttal. I haven’t seen where but they did say after the documentary came out they would post the hours and hours of video so we could go through it and see them going to multiples and could also see others visiting less than 10. I haven’t seen if they have released it…
“...I voted for Libertarian Gary Johnson in 2016,
and Libertarian Jo Jorgensen in 2020...”
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‘Nough said right there.
Except they did have video footage of multiple drop boxes. Yet they never showed a repeat ballot dropper. Postal workers don’t count as that’s their job.
Really? How much longer would it have made the movie to show just one person visiting a drop box multiple times. 5 minutes? 10 minutes? I mean that WAS THE WHOLE PREMISE of the movie.
Your act is getting old, Denier.
Yeah
Kinda liked some his stuff before but he just dropped a bowling 🎳 ball on his big toe here.
A complete waste of time. Glad I only skimmed it but there were multiple flags even at that.
Aside from the people shown depositing in several drop boxes, there is also the fact that no way could they be sure that it was the same people at different drop boxes, even with cameras. Dishonest people change clothing and do things on different nights in different places if they are smart about being dishonest people, aside from being morally stupid.
I can see voting for Gary Johnson - but to follow that up with voting for JoJo in 2020 takes a Special Kind of Losertarian Stoopid.
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