"It wasn't a steal, it was a safeguard"

We had Moldbug; now, we have Ms Ball at TIME. Save it while it's hot; it's on Archive (thanks VD), but it might not survive even there.

They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears. They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump’s conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction. After Election Day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure that Trump could not overturn the result.

"They" here are a handshake between business and labor. Meaning, between deep-state-aligned corporations and unions. The smaller businesses and the line workers didn't get a say.

Unmentioned in the "business" side: the vaccine manufacturers "stopping the count", slow-walking their process and (especially) not releasing their good news until after the election.

As for motive, Ball protests The scenario the shadow campaigners were desperate to stop was not a Trump victory. It was an election so calamitous that no result could be discerned at all, a failure of the central act of democratic self-governance that has been a hallmark of America since its founding. The "disinformation" meme would put the lie to that. For the Left, "disinformation" is information that hurts the Left. It can be false (like QAnon); but in 2020 it included the account of Hunter Biden's dealings - which were not false, just unhelpful. So what we're reading is a Pravda story explaining what happened between its lines.

I have mine own ideas on motive: that coronavirus radicalised the public-health voter. Breitbart agrees adding also white male demoralisation. That much came not from "disinformation" but from accurate information, that Trump had abandoned them to govern like yet another hrr drr srrvative GOP drone (but with tweets!). Overall I think that mattered less, though.

I especially like this: Norm Eisen, a prominent lawyer and former Obama Administration official who recruited Republicans and Democrats to the board of the Voter Protection Program. Recruiting Duraks, in a deep deep Democrat op. As we see from the North American M/B Lincoln Association, outed as such after its founders were known as what they were since 1988... there's no use for them anymore!

As for Ball herself, well... she's one of (((us))). What I cannot tell from her story is why she posted it. Is it a victory lap for the true tribe of urban media liberals? Or is she signalling hard to a Haredi extended family - Trump voters - that they've been jobbed? With us lot, we can go both sides, which is why we're not trusted, by either side.

It's not over of course. We're learning in real-time some of the methods by Bank Of America, monitoring purchases and volunteering those data to the Feds. Sure does seem like The Plan wasn't what Q said it was, and isn't what Anonymous Conservative says it is. Sure does seem like the Democrat Party won and is now the only Party.