Go figure Dinesh D''Souza lied to us who would have thought.

[Duncanpup]

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He’s halting distribution of 2000 mules and has apologized to Georgia voter Mark Andrews.
Can’t cross post articles on NPR.

[ramen]

1. link:

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/31/g-s1-2298/publisher-of-2000-mules-election-conspiracy-theory-film-issues-apology

[Duncanpup]

3. Thank you ramen

[BoRaGard]

2. republican Lie Machine hits one wee bump in the road

Not going to slow them down....lie, lie, lie.

That is what they do.

[2naSalit]

7. Made me think of this...

[JT45242]

4. Hope the defamation suit bankrupts him and the film company

Everyone. Literally everyone affiliated with this book and movie should be hit with judgement similar to Rudy and 34-time convicted felon.

They should all be put in to poverty spirals.

Especially, the deep pockets that truly pushed the movie (whichever billionaire asshat aligned to the fascists it was (truly unsure if it was Murdoch, Thiel, Leo, Milken, or one of the others)).

[brewens]

5. One thing about his 2016 movie people overlooked. He claimed Obama's dad was Kenyan with "anticolonial

views". That's supposed to concern us that it may have rubbed off on him?

Evidently Dinesh is a little confused about what country he's in. The country whose finest hour was tossing the colonial power out and we can't have a President with anticolonial views? Had to be one of the stupidest fucking things I've ever seen and MAGAts eat it up!

[Ray Bruns]

9. Dinesh's euphemism for white.

[BobTheSubgenius]

14. Stop the presses!

This must have been monumental news for many people. He probably has anti-slavery views, as well.

[RAB910]

6. This is just the evil right taking advantage of Brandolini's law

Brandolini's law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage coined in 2013 by Alberto Brandolini, an Italian programmer, that emphasizes the effort of debunking misinformation, in comparison to the relative ease of creating it in the first place. The law states:

The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.[1][2]

The rise of easy popularization of ideas through the internet has greatly increased the relevant examples, but the asymmetry principle itself has long been recognized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

[meow2u3]

11. Working definition of Brandolini's Law

Mark Twain said it long before Brandolini: A lie travels halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its boots on.

[heckles65]

10. I'm laughing thinking about

all the damn fools who paid real money in the theater to watch this blatant BS

[liberalla]

13. Yes, I wonder how they're feeling today...

What fools!

[flying_wahini]

12. And Goebbels said If you tell them your lies over and over again they will believe it.

Taking a page right out of FAUX news.

[wolfie001]

15. Lying felonious pig just like donald dump

Nice ring to it and it's 100% truth.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. True the Vote is a scam

True the vote is a scam. The lady who formed this entity is a tea party idiot who found a way to scam her fellow conservatives

Link to tweet

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/14/true-the-vote-big-lie-election-fraud/?utm_campaign=trib-social&utm_content=1655241639&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

A former PTA mom-turned-Tea Party activist, True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht has played a pivotal role in helping drive the voter fraud movement from the political fringes to a central pillar in the Republican Party’s ideology. Casting herself as a God-fearing, small-town Texan, she’s spread the voter-fraud gospel by commanding airtime on cable television, space on the pages of Breitbart News and even theater seats, as a new feature film dramatizing her organization’s exploits, “2000 Mules,” plays in cinemas across the country.....

And while the claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election have been dismissed out of hand by courts and debunked by audits, even those led by Republicans, the story of True the Vote highlights how exploiting the Big Lie has become a lucrative enterprise, growing from a cottage industry to a thriving economy.

The records show:

True the Vote regularly reported loans to Engelbrecht, including more than $113,000 in 2019, according to a tax filing. Texas law bans nonprofits from loaning money to directors; Engelbrecht is both a director and an employee.

Companies connected to Engelbrecht and Phillips collected nearly $890,000 from True the Vote from 2014 to 2020. The largest payment — at least $750,000 — went to a new company created by Phillips, OPSEC Group LLC, to do voter analysis in 2020. It’s unclear whether OPSEC has any other clients; it has no website and no digital footprint that Reveal could trace beyond its incorporation records. The contract, which one expert called “eye-popping” for its largess, did not appear to be disclosed in the 2020 tax return the organization provided to Reveal.

True the Vote provided Bopp’s law firm a retainer of at least $500,000 to lead a legal charge against the results of the 2020 election, but he filed only four of the seven lawsuits promised to a $2.5 million donor, all of which were voluntarily dismissed less than a week after being filed. The donor later called the amount billed by Bopp’s firm “unconscionable” and “impossible.”

The organization’s tax returns are riddled with inconsistencies and have regularly been amended. Experts who reviewed the filings said it makes it difficult to understand how True the Vote is truly spending its donations.

In one instance, True the Vote produced two different versions of the same document. A copy of the 2019 tax return Engelbrecht provided to Reveal does not match the version on the IRS website.

Juanita Jean has had to deal with the tea party idiot who founded this group https://juanitajean.com/true-the-vote/

This will not be the first time, or even the third or eighth time, you have read about Cathy Engelbrecht here at the beauty salon. She’s been on our radar for ten years when she was speaking in church basements and VFW halls in the Houston area, pushing the idea that it’s too damn easy to vote. She would get the attendees name and addresses, mostly very old people, and send them requests for money. She didn’t like my questions and quickly named me “that woman” and told people I was a reporter as she rolled her eyes.

She had difficulty giving me any examples of the horror of illegal voting that she claimed was killing America. I could give her a couple of examples that happened right in her neighborhood, but they were both Republicans. She quickly informed me that she wasn’t talking about just two people, she was talking about hundreds, thousands. She just didn’t know any of them.

And then the third example hit. The Republican man she was personally supporting for county commissioner voted in two states for three elections and I had his signature to prove it. I wrote about it in the newspaper and he was defeated soundly.

I once described her as an attractive woman with a dollar sign on her forehead. She always had her hand out. She was far more concerned with raising money than illegal voting.

And now the Washington Post says she’s being sued for taking $2 million from a donor and producing the same thing I saw her produce – diddle squat.