Byrne's 2020 post-election retrospective

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Patrick Byrne of Deep Capture is penning an account of his involvement during the period after the 2020 Presidential election. He was a member of one of several independent groups who discovered signs of potentially massive fraud and had been working on proving it.

It's one man's account, so the usual disclaimers apply, but it fills in some gaps for those who were paying attention. It's not particularly favourable to Trump and co. Trump being portrayed as weak-willed and gelded by his own people. Giuliani as a senile drink-sodden fool on his best day, amid a sea of incompetent if not hostile actors. It has a ring of truth to me.

How Donald J. Trump Lost the White House
Preface.
Introduction: Why I Was Involved Before November 3 & What I Learned Because I Was.
Chapter 1: All the President's Teams. (November 3rd - December 17th)
Chapter 2: Was there Foreign Interference in this Election?
Chapter 3: Crashing the White House. (December 18th-22nd)
Chapter 4: The Christmas Doldrums. (December 23rd - January 6th)
Chapter 5: Agitation and Chaos.(January 6th - January 20th)

It's a work in progress, there are likely more chapters to come.

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Biden is in the White House fair and square.....and not a moment too soon!

Trump lost by 7 million votes----and he lost by at least 10,000 votes in every state where he lost the Electoral Votes.

In October 2011, Vancouver businessman, Altaf Nazerali sued Patrick Byrne for libel and defamation in the Supreme Court of British Columbia for articles published in Byrne's "Deep Capture" website.  In May 2016, the Court found that the allegations in the Deep Capture articles were libelous and defamatory; Nazerali was awarded $1.2 million in damages, including $500,000 in aggravated damages, $250,000 in punitive damages and $55,000 in special damages.  Byrne was permanently banned from publishing these accusations.  The Court found Byrne, his employee Mark Mitchell, and Deep Capture "engaged in a calculated and ruthless campaign to inflict as much damage on Mr. Nazerali's reputation as they could achieve."  The 102-page decision said "It is clear on the evidence that their intention was to conduct a vendetta in which the truth about Mr. Nazerali himself was of no consequence."  The judgment was upheld on appeal in August 2018.

Patrick Byrne resigned as CEO of discount furniture outlet Overstock on Thursday, August 22, 2019 -- 10 days after he confirmed he had been romantically involved with convicted Russian spy Maria Butina, and for comments he made promoting his "Deep State" conspiracy theory (Mariia Valeryevna Butina is a Russian who was convicted in 2018 of acting as an unregistered foreign agent of Russia within the United States).

On December 18, 2020, Byrne met with Trump in the White House.

Byrne's Twitter account was suspended after he asserted the election was "stolen" from Trump.  He made other demonstrably false claims on Twitter, such that counterfeit ballots were counted in Georgia.

So, not only is Mr. Byrne proven to be one who engages in slanderous and defamatory accusations against innocent people, and that he is a "Deep State" and "Stolen Election" conspiracy theorist, but that he consorted with at least one Russian spy during Mr. Trump's term as President, and met with Mr. Trump afterward.

Mr. Byrne seems to not exactly be the kind of man for whom the word "integrity" was coined.

As I'm sure you know kraftie, being someone who reads things before copying and pasting boilerplate statements, the numbers of potentially fraudulent votes in the 5 most contentious states alone is in the region of hundreds of thousands.

Got any proof?

The thing about Trump....is that he was an incompetent leader.

Like I always said, one can be as conservative as heck----yet still dislike Trump.

Trump really isn't a true conservative. He has no political ideology.

What do you want proof of? Surely proof does not apply one way or the other to "potentially fraudulent" until it is investigated? If you'd like info regarding the potential fraud/inexplicable anomalies there is much documented here: https://hereistheevidence.com/

Well, I tried reading the first chapter, but it quite quickly reached the “debunking all the mistakes in this is not a worthwhile use of my time” threshold.

The author is, of course, correct that we should all be concerned about the integrity of voting machines in the most general sense. They are bad ideas in the same way that chocolate teapots are bad ideas - it doesn’t matter how well-intentioned the chocolate teapot manufacturers are.

Now the first glaring issue:

This is a pretty obvious case of a form of survivorship bias.

There is no way that those six cities would have been picked out. They would certainly have named Miami before most of the above (Miami-Dade county is probably even more discussed than Maricopa county, Arizona). Charlotte, Columbus, and Dallas would also probably have been mentioned, maybe alongside Denver, Richmond, and Manchester NH (Trump at least was trying to convince people he was viable in these places). But those places were either won by Trump or went heavily for Biden, so the author ignores them.

Then there’s the issue of other cities in those states. Was vote counting and the results in Las Vegas more surprising than in Reno? No. What about Tucson, Pittsburgh, Madison, Kenosha, Augusta, Lansing? No, these all experienced similar things to the biggest city in their state.

So, to conclude:

- Author’s imaginary political science professor makes a claim about how to fix an election that a real one wouldn’t have made at the time.
- This claim, made with hindsight, specifically looks at cities in states won by Biden, rather than competitive states won by Trump. This exaggerates the predictive power that someone would have had.
- The claim also focuses on the largest cities in these states, without looking at the patterns in second and third largest states.

The author claims that it was common knowledge that rigging the vote in exactly six named cities would rig the whole country, and that no other cities would have this effect. The author also claims that exactly these six cities were the places where “unprecedented turns” took place. But these claims are false. The author creates a compelling narrative, but that narrative is much less compelling when informed by the facts.

Like I implied earlier, integrity does not seem to be Patrick Byrne's strong suit.

I don't disagree. Whether he believes that or whether it's a bit of "flourish" for the conspiratorial narrative I don't know, but it doesn't negate the strange events and results in those cities. Keep reading if you find time, it's very interesting.

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Chapter 6 was just posted. It's the final chapter apparently. This is a bit more speculative than the other chapters.
Chapter 6: The Aftermath (January 6th-20th)

I wonder if the asterisk * thing will catch on.

A Narrative Without Facts

Is Surely Not Without

Precedence...

Yawn...

Just Another

'Old Bible'; Just

Someone Else

With Hyperbole

To SeLL A STory...

Hmm, Wonder What

Would Happen if Someone

Told a Story, For No Money or

Target Audience at all...

Just for the

Joy of Truth;

Just For the

Joy of Life Now

Love Let's Do That True;

Yes, All Lit Up For Fun;

Now At Least in the

United States What A Great Surprise; Yet

As Long As 'The End' Is Greater Than 'The Means'

Otherwise Really 'Beginning Now'

We Get

What

We Get Now;

Not Much Truth,

And Lots of Hyperbole; Little Love For Much At All

As End Supersedes Meaning In Truth at Most For Now...

Yes, i too Always

Read a Reputation

oF A Narrator Too;

As Days Are too Precious to Waste in a Dollar
Bill, A Like, A Share, A Follow, Or Whatever

CuRRenCY CuLTuRE Rules....

TG For
'Google
Cliff Notes'

In All The Ways
They Come to Avoid Wasting Life...

Some interesting or amusing excerpts to whet appetites:

Preface:

Having been inside this election fraud issue for months, having gotten to know the best brains in it, professors and technologists and computer scientists, the best estimate that I have heard comes from one of them, an esteemed government scientist (think “rocket science” but I may be being metaphorical to some degree). This scientist and some of his buddies from an esteemed government laboratory have been making a hobby of th study of election fraud for a couple decades. The final estimate of this scientist is that Donald Trump probably got around 79 million votes and Joe Biden got 53-68 million votes. Through chicanery, Trump ended up with 74 million, Biden with 80 million. The professor in question may not be exactly right, but his numbers convey my rough sense of the magnitude of the theft of this rigged election.


Introduction:

From the British Left-of-Center The Guardian, this in March, 2020 (ten months ago as I write): “Hack the vote: terrifying film shows how vulnerable US elections are“. This was a review of the HBO documentary “Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections“, which appeared in March, 2020. The Guardian‘s view was that the case made by the documentary was horrifying, and they piled on with some good reporting of their own. Note that making claims now such were made 10 months by HBO, and lauded by The Guardian, will today get one banned from social media, and will be illegal under the Democrats’ new bill to combat “domestic terrorism”.

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So allow me to point out that as of September, 2020, there probably was not a single subject one could find with such unanimity of conscience across the political spectrum, as the vulnerability to mass election fraud. From Mother Jones to CNET to Bloomberg to CNN to New York Times to Fox, our world was in rare complete agreement on the subject. Only four months ago, concern over the possibility of mass election fraud enjoyed the broadest consensus of any subject in our society one can think of. It seems worthy of mention now, given that its possibility is getting flushed down the Orwellian memory hole.

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In Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, a “water-main break” forced the evacuation of the vote counting area of the arena: it later turned out to be fake (“BUSTED: Evidence Proves ‘Burst Water Pipe’ In Georgia Was Used As Cover For Secret Vote-Counting“) . In the few hours when the counting was “closed”, hundreds of thousands of votes were pushed through the system. The “water-main break” turned out to be a urinal that had overflowed (“Reported Burst Pipe in Atlanta Ballot-Count Area Was Overflowing Urinal: Investigator“).

In one location, multiple security cameras caught workers grabbing suitcases of ballots out of hiding and feeding them into machines while counting was officially stopped and all others had been shooed from the area.

Some of these cities saw goons muscle observers away from vote counting centers on gobbledygook reasons, while others taped pizza boxes across windows to block poll observers from being able to observe.

In the days after the election the suspicion that untoward things were occurring was ubiquitous. Suspicion was focused on Dominion Voting (“Dominion Machines Cover Millions of Voters, But Watch How Easy It Is To Rig One of Them” Western Journal, November 13, 2020). However, in my opinion that focus insufficiently appreciates the true nature of the issue of election fraud in the USA, its scope and varieties.

Within days, the cyber teams I was with were coming up with data that showed what had happened in those windows where counting had been “stopped”: hundreds of thousands of ballots had been injected, often running 99.4% and even 100% Biden.

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Benford’s law, a statistical law frequently used in courts when establishing voter fraud, was applied to the election results in Michigan: “Biden’s vote numbers in Michigan do not match Benford’s law at a 99.999% significance level.” Some challenge this claim. One of the people who made this claim has retracted it, but others maintain it, and in any case the subject of retractions has also become, “problematic,” for reasons to be explored). And in any case, no significant rebuttal of Dr. Shiva’s much more thorough analysis has been contrived.

Regarding Pennsylvania’s irregularities, a Williams math professor laid it on the line (“Yale Trained Mathematician Flags 100,000 Pennsylvania Ballots As Likely Fraudulent“). This led to an official reaction (“Federal Elections Commission Chairman Trey Trainor says new analysis by professor Steven Miller ‘adds to the conclusions that some level of voter fraud took place in this year’s election'”). Professor Miller’s affadavit appears at the end of this chapter.

Before the end of the year noted economist John Lott would come out with a paper: “A Simple Test for the Extent of Vote Fraud with Absentee Ballots in the 2020 Presidential Election: Georgia and Pennsylvania Data“. Lott’s findings were summarized in the popular press, “Expert: Biden win ‘suspicious,’ 289,000 election-changing ‘excess’ votes“. The Goon Squad has not forced Lott to recant and he stands by his findings.

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Remember, Dear Reader, it really should not be necessary to convince you that election fraud with absolute certainty. In all fairness, my threshold should be to convince you that there is a lot about Election 2020 that smells like skunk, enough that it was not and is not reasonable to sweep it all under the rug.

Chapter 1:

So 12 years later, on a Friday afternoon at about 3 PM, I walked into the office space that was being shared by the Trump campaign and by the law firm that was forming up around Rudy Giuliani to investigate, address, and challenge, the election irregularities which were surfacing from the 2020 election.

It was nothing like the outfit that I expected to find (explained above), with data-gathering feeding decision-making feeding information loops to keep a large and geographically distributed workforce operating successfully. Law firms are notoriously poorly-managed businesses, in any case, they truly are, but the law firm-campaign space that had taken shape within that office was a particular shit-show. People wandered vaguely from meeting to meeting. The meetings I saw were run like bull sessions, with no agenda, no format, and no apparent sense of urgency.

Within about 45 minutes I was ushered to a room where I was to have 30 minutes with Rudy. Physically he was more of a grandfather than I had remembered, a bit less robust, a bit more hunched, and a bit more irascible. I explained to him carefully the outline of what we understood at that point, an outline such as the reader might have after watching this presentation by the MIT Math Ph.D. Dr. Shiva, or the exposition by Seth Keshel, as well as the cascade of stories regarding porous security in election software all referenced above. I feared overwhelming him, so I tried to simplify. As I spoke he occasionally grunted stoically, and it was difficult to judge what was sinking in. After about 10 minutes Rudy started checking his multiple phones for texts, right in front of me as we sat together. Conversing with one of his assistants, sending someone on a side errand, or receiving a report back. It felt rather strange to be talking to a man who was paying so little attention, but the Commish, sitting on the side, motioned for me to continue. After no more than 30 minutes I was ushered out of the office, but told to hang around.

Eventually, I was brought back into a smaller room with Mayor Giuliani, and again asked to explain what I think happened. Realizing I may have overwhelmed him with my earlier explanation, and gotten him lost in the forest for the trees, I broke it down simply and slowly, like one would for one’s 76-year-old Grandfather. Again within 5-10 minutes he was fidgeting, grunting on occasion, sending people on unrelated side errands, checking his multiple phones for texts, and typing responses…. Meanwhile, I tried to stay on track. Yet there was a moment 15 minutes in when I got a whiff of something in that small office…. Medicine? Booze? Just as I was taking a sniff to determine, someone rushed in with some unrelated issue, and I was escorted from the office.

Again I wandered around among the staff, most of whom were professing to know nothing about what was going on, and many others of whom were packing up their desks into bankers’ boxes. I was perplexed and found myself drifting around the convoluted office space. 30 minutes later I was strolling outside some other conference room down the hall when I heard Rudy’s familiar voice saying, “…don’t understand a goddamn thing this guy’s saying…” drifting out of a doorway. Startled, I looked around the corner, and there was Rudy talking to whatever group of staffers happened to be sitting worshipfully in that conference room to which he had moved.

Several staffers pulled me aside in a hallway. What Mayor Giuliani is going to need, one told me, is a one page summary. Very simplified.. A one-pager.

Another piped up, And bulletpoints. The Mayor likes bulletpoints!

Another added, but with graphs and data.

But no more than one page! Repeated the first.

Chapter 2:

In this chapter I will follow that principle. I start with an analysis of the packet traffic on Election Day 2020 provided me by the best cyber-forensics specialist (aka “dolphin-speaker”) I have ever met. As packets travel through the Internet they leave a trail, and dolphin-speakers using the right tools can, in a sense, “shine a light” and reveal those packet trails in the cyber-fog. The cyber-specialists to whom I refer, who has access to such tools (and even more arcane ones), has documented vote-flipping in the Problematic 6 states amounting to 299,567 votes, just enough in each state to flip the election. 43% of that activity came from China.

Chapter 3:

Sidney and Mike began walking the President through things from our perspective. In brief: there was a quick way to resolve this national crisis because he had power to act in ways he was not understanding. Under an Executive Order that he had signed in 2018, and another Executive Order that President Obama had signed in 2015, he could “find” that there was adequate evidence of foreign interference with the election, and while doing so would give him authority to do a number of big things, all he had to do was one small thing: direct a federal force (we suggested US Marshall Service + National Guard) to go to the six counties in question (the Problematic 6), and re-count (on livestream TV) the paper ballots that were held as fail-safe back-up. It would only take a few days. Even more conclusive would be if they imaged the hard-drives and those images could be examined forensically (which would make the project last no more than a week, as we had already cracked the Antrim County machines and knew precisely what to do going forward). In either case, if there was no mischief found, then President Trump would concede the election. But if (as we suspected) evidence of hundreds of thousands of improper votes was found in each of the six counties in question, then he would have a wide variety of options. He might have those six states re-counted. Or he might have 50 states recounted on livestream TV by federal forces, and America would finally have its answer to, “How much election fraud does our nation suffer?” Or he might skip that and have the National Guard re-run the elections in those six states. We pointed out that, it being December 18, if he signed the paperwork we had brought with us, we could have the first stage (recounting the Problematic 6 counties) finished before Christmas. And even if the result was hinky enough it demanded a rerun of the election in those states, it could be done before January 20, so that the January 20 Constitutional deadline would not be disrupted. The more time that he let slide by, the more compressed things would become. If he waited to see what the January 6 outcome was, however, and then decided to follow a plan such as ours, it would engender accusations of “sore-loserism”, so he had to act quickly. The alternative was an election that 47% of Americans doubted, which would not go down peacefully.

Chapter 4:

On New Year’s Day I was in the laboratory of the federally certified forensic document examiner, and one of his colleagues who had driven through the night to be there. They were quiet, professional, and I left them to their work. After an hour they reported: two of the ballots were printed in one print shop, the other was printed in a different print shop using different paper, different ink, and a different printing method. It being highly unlikely that the county had ordered its ballots from two different print shops, this was indicative that at least one of the ballots was a counterfeit.

Our Man in Georgia had the warehouse in Atlanta under observation. Bums with telephoto lenses were filming. With permission, I put out on Twitter a brief description of what we had found. Hours later, rented Enterprise moving vans pulled up to the warehouse, and pallets of ballots were moved into it.

The next day, a shredding company in a neighboring county got a phone call to pick up an assignment to shred. The truck pulled up, and loaded approximately 3,000 pounds of ballots. It has been confirmed to me that the order was paid for by someone with a credit card from “Dominion Voting”. The shredding truck pulled away. Through a mechanism I will not explain, that shredding truck was intercepted, its work stopped, and ultimately 10,000 pounds of shredded material was dumped out on the floor of a local police station, so there would be a chain-of-evidence. Roughly 3,000 pounds of the shredded material was the ballots (the other 7,000 was from prior customers). The shredding that had been order by the Dominion Voting employee had not been normal shredding (turning things into long strips); it had not been the special shredding (turning the material into confetti); it had been the super-duper military-grade shredding, where the ballots had been shredded then crushed down to spitballs.

Chapter 5:

What happened on the afternoon of January 6 is the worst thing that could have happened for the Freedom Movement. Millions of people had descended on DC to protest the theft of our national election and to support those standing up for the truth. However, in the course of their protest, Goons stormed the Capitol. Five people died as a result. One woman was shot unnecessarily by police, two others died from heart attack and getting crushed in a mob, and one police officer was killed in a way that remains unclear: “Media reports have been conflicting — unnamed law enforcement sources initially told outlets Sicknick was bludgeoned in the head by a fire extinguisher, while others speaking on condition of anonymity countered those claims, arguing there was no immediate evidence showing that Sicknick suffered any blunt force trauma” (“A month after Capitol riot, autopsy results pending in Officer Brian Sicknick death investigation“, Fox, February 8 2021).

The same Mainstream Media that (over the course of 2020) described as “mostly peaceful protests” the actions of Antifa and Black Lives Matter killing 33 police, injuring another 700 police, and burning thousands of businesses, has portrayed these events at the Capitol as the greatest tragedy to hit America since Pearl Harbor. It is nice to know there is some form of Goonism in politics still objectionable to the Mainstream Media.

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Rudy put the phones down and slid them to Mediocrity. Just as I began again to speak, Mediocrity turned and began having a side conversation with someone in the next seat, and again I folded my hands, stared at Mediocrity, and kept my mouth shut. I had reached the point where I was preparing to say, “Who do you a**holes think you are? You call me at 10:30 PM, tell me to come to your hotel to share my thoughts, then don’t even have the courtesy to pay attention?” But as I opened my mouth, Mediocrity cut off the side conversation and faced me quietly. Everyone else in the room went quiet as well, and looked at me.

In two months of dealing with that group, it was the first moment that they conducted themselves in a manner that normal business people (or even, “normal adults”) would conduct themselves. I realized that for the first time I had Rudy’s full attention, and not only that, I could see that it was the first time I had been with him when he was the Rudy Giuliani I remember from 30 years ago, prepared to take on the Mob, in command, focused. The silence stretched on as I thought, then said:

“These machines were sold to the public with a promise: as a fail-safe there would always be a paper ballots to use as a backup. If there was ever a time, now is the time. The FBI and CISA have both opined that our election came under foreign attack. We provided evidence of that as well. President Trump should find that there has been foreign interference, and on that basis send a federal force of US Marshalls, or National Guard, or DHS, or FBI, to examine paper ballots in the problematic six counties, and count them on livestream TV. If there are no gross irregularities, he should concede. But if he finds discrepancies of hundreds of thousands of ballots, as we think he may, he then has choices. He can recount the six states, or order the federal force to rerun the election in those 6 states. He might even still have it all done by January 20.”

There was silence. After a few seconds the Commish stirred to speak. I turned to face him as he slid his hand away from his mouth, and stroked his chin. He nodded slowly, and grunted, “Yeah. Makes sense.” Mediocrity lit up, and the new lawyer on the scene, on my left, spoke up and began exploring the advantages of it aloud. Rudy chimed in, and within minutes they had it all worked out: it was narrow so it was not too objectionable, it generated an answer, and depending upon the outcome, it gave a route to Trump. I stayed another 30 minutes as they bounced the idea around with a spark of excitement growing. Finally they said they would be working on details and maybe even calling the President, and I took that as my cue to leave. I said goodbye to them, and put my coat on.

As I turned to leave the Mayor came and shook my hand. Then he tapped my chest with his finger and said quietly, regretfully: “If only we had another month.”

Truly. I had watched two months slide by Mayor Giuliani and his team displaying no organization or progress. Watching them trying to get anything done was like watching half-a-dozen monkeys trying to f**k a football. But now I was hearing, “If only we had another month.” They could have had another decade and it would not have made a difference. They were the wrong people. Rudy, because he should likely no longer be handling complex litigation, he certainly should not be handling complex litigation regarding cyber, and because he’d rather spend his days drinking whiskey and doing podcasts. A former government employee who was so Mediocre we all came to suspect may have been sent as an agent of disruption, and others with their focus on a pot of cash that (at last report) was $300 million and growing.

Chapter 6:

I still hear from otherwise sane-sounding people, and read in social media, assertions that Trump is really still in charge, or the military is in charge, or that there is a plan, that this has all been a big 4-dimensional chess trap, and on March 4 Trump is going to reemerge as President, of the Republic not the Corporation (or some such)…. It is time someone tells all such folks: that is all delusional. Trust me, there is no such plan. Trump’s people in the Defense Department have all left. There is no network of secret agents ready to spring the trap and restore Donald Trump to the White House on March 4. It is delusional to think otherwise. The brutal fact of our current reality is that (as a result of a process riddled with election fraud), we have a President* Biden. If enough of it could have been unwound by the middle of December, state legislators would have had something to think about in choosing their electors. But the genius of the scheme is that after the election, it simply had to rope-a-dope for 8 weeks, and the grinding of constitutional gears would do the rest of the work for them.