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.
I saw people depositing ballots. I remember one or more wearing surgical gloves. What is he talking about?
There's been a nonstop, industry-wide media narrative about "false claims of election fraud" since November 2020 - and you criticize this movie for not providing "equal time to their opponents"? Are you serious?
You just jumped the shark, Danny boy...
Of course, one major problem is that while there is much footage, many, many of the locations where there were supposed to be cameras, they were unable to get the footage. Also, many jurisdictions had no surveillance at all on the boxes. (Something that simply screams to allow fraud.)
As a movie, perhaps it might be somewhat more convincing if they had, and showed the same person at many different boxes, but they have actual data of the phones these mules were carrying. If that type of data can be used by the government to hunt down and imprison people that were in DC for Jan. 6th, certainly it is every bit as dependable for this purpose. Some of these clowns apparently went to 30 different boxes. The threshold they set to come up with just 2000 mules was ludicrously low.
It is clear there was fraud on a larger scale than even a cynical Zeugma would have initially believed possible.
I have a similar complaint after watching the film. I do believe the election was stolen, and probably there were thousands of mules trafficking ballots. But I did not recall seeing one video of the same person dropping off ballots to more than one dropbox or even the same one twice. If it’s there I don’t recall seeing it. If it is there, the director should have emphasized it better and made it clear. Further, if no such video was obtained, then they should have at least addressed why they believe such video was too scarce to obtain.
Also, if the claims are legit I would expect to hear of at least a few state authorities making arrests for voter fraud based on evidence provided by the filmmakers. Haven’t heard that yet.
My main reason for not pushing this film more is because it feels like the message is, “Trust us. The election was stolen.” The film was well-made and fairly persuasive. But I was hoping for more.
If it is the same cell phone it would be unreasonable to claim the same phone was used by multiple people.
Like criticizing Solzhenitsen for failing to give the communists equal time, when the communists fully controlled the media, and everyone for all practical purposes, had the communist talking points memorized. The Democrat views are fully and easily available in the media around the clock, where liberals posing as conservatives are used as “balance” for the lib bias.
He might as well have voted for Hillary in 2016 and Biden in 2020 instead of voting for the Losertarian candidates.
AMEN!!! What a DOPE!!
“In fact most dropboxes were not monitored.”
I hope, but strongly doubt, that Patriot citizens when video cameras will be on every drop-box like stink on sh-t this time around.
Those boxes must be outlawed, but there’s not enough time before this November.
And according to election law experts only the voter or a member of the voter’s family (not friend or acquaintance) is permitted to put a ballot in a drop box.
When a hooded, gloved, sneak deposits a STACK of ballots in one box, and proceeds to do the same at nine other boxes, it’s clearly a con. Either that, or he has a freakishly large family.
He still feels Biden’s thugs won by cheating...
So you just wanted to see one of the mules dropping at 10 or more boxes. I thought you wanted to see all. I wish they would have at least gave a web sight you could go a view all of them. I know they said they would drop all the video so we could go dig through it ourselves.
I’ve been putting quotes from the movie when I can on IMDB. Hopefully, others who have seen it will assist with this endeavor.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18924506/quotes?ref_=tt_ql_sm
“Postal workers don’t count as that’s their job.”
Big lie... Postal workers do not need to use a dropbox, they can deliver ballots directly. Actually it is against the law for them too drop off more than their ballot.
https://rumble.com/v14ho3l-georgia-mule-stuffs-dropbox-2020.html
https://rumble.com/v18f2yz-mi-postal-workers-filling-dropboxes-barr-stifled-pa-ballot-probe-pa-begins-.html
https://rumble.com/vtokow-illegal-ballot-harvester-in-gwinnett-county-georgia-october-12-2020.html
https://rumble.com/vsgwz5-january-12-2022.html
https://rumble.com/vxzxmf-pennsylvania-ballot-trafficker-breaking-up-pile-of-harvested-ballots-to-stu.html
Read later.
Exactly. Which is why I wondered if the guy even watched the documentary. They explained that.
I took it as more evidence that election laws were simply being openly broken by not having video surveillance.
I just want to see one of these “mules” make a 2nd drop whether it’s at the same or different drop box doesn’t matter. We know they have video of a given drop box. They claim these “mules” made multiple visits to the same drop box. So why isn’t there any video of that. Shapiro leveled the same criticism and D’Sousa dodged the question. Why?
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