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everything
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this whole damn time.
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❌ WIDESPREAD VOTER FRAUD— FOUR QUESTIONS
Election Claims Fact Check: chatgpt.com/s/t_6ae77c92e550…
🗳️ Bottom line
The evidence supports three factual conclusions: Trump lost the certified 2020 election; isolated instances of illegal noncitizen voting have occurred, but are statistically insignificant; and verified audits and prosecutions have not established the alleged nationwide scale of tens or hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots.
Fact-checked answers: Noncitizen voting in U.S. elections
🗳️ 1. In what year did the narrative become a persistent, multiyear national political issue? 🗳️
2020, with an important historical distinction.
Donald Trump publicly promoted claims of millions of illegal votes after the 2016 election. Following his 2020 defeat, allegations of widespread election fraud continued through subsequent election cycles, with noncitizen voting becoming an especially prominent recurring claim during the 2024 campaign.
Therefore, 2016 marks the earlier national prominence; 2020 marks the post-election escalation; and 2024 marks another major resurgence.
🗳️ 2. Is Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential election loss an established, legally certified fact? 🗳️
Yes.
Joe Biden
306 Electoral votes
/
Donald Trump
232 Electoral votes
Certified results recorded by the National Archives. Biden also won the national popular vote by approximately 7.05 million votes.
Biden’s victory was legally certified, and audits, recounts, and litigation did not establish fraud sufficient to overturn the result.
🗳️ 3. Does empirical evidence support widespread noncitizen voting involving tens or hundreds of thousands of ballots? 🗳️
No verified evidence establishes that claim.
Actual state audit findings include:
Investigation/Documented findings:
Georgia, 2024
▫️20 noncitizens registered; 9 had voted in previous elections
Nevada, 2016
▫️100 noncitizens registered; 3 voted
Brennan Center, 2016
Approximately 30 suspected incidents among 23.5 million ballots examined
These findings establish that noncitizen voting occurs, but do not establish a nationwide problem involving tens or hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots.
🗳️ 4. What is the exact nationwide conviction count over the past six years, and how does it compare with total ballots? 🗳️
An exact, comprehensive nationwide count for November 2020–November 2026 is not established by the available records.
Two particularly useful documented findings are:
100 cases: The Heritage Foundation’s database included approximately 100 documented cases of noncitizen voting from 1982 through 2025, according to Brookings. These are not necessarily all convictions, and the database is not a complete nationwide census.
14 convictions or guilty pleas: ProPublica’s August 14, 2026 investigation identified 14 such outcomes in a particular federal enforcement initiative through May 2026. This is not the total across all federal and state jurisdictions over six years.
For scale, approximately 424 million ballots were cast in the 2020 presidential, 2022 House, and 2024 general elections combined.
Illustrative mathematical comparison:
Hypothetical documented cases
* 100
Cases per million ballots
* 0.236
Percentage of ballots
* 0.000024%
🗳️ Bottom line
The evidence supports three factual conclusions: Trump lost the certified 2020 election; isolated instances of illegal noncitizen voting have occurred, but are statistically insignificant; and verified audits and prosecutions have not established the alleged nationwide scale of tens or hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots.
A narrative in search of evidence. Always.
More ℹ️: teapaw.org/atweetthing/status/211…
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❌ WIDESPREAD VOTER FRAUD— FOUR QUESTIONS
Election Claims Fact Check: chatgpt.com/s/t_6ae77c92e550…
🗳️ Bottom line
The evidence supports three factual conclusions: Trump lost the certified 2020 election; isolated instances of illegal noncitizen voting have occurred, but are statistically insignificant; and verified audits and prosecutions have not established the alleged nationwide scale of tens or hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots.
Fact-checked answers: Noncitizen voting in U.S. elections
🗳️ 1. In what year did the narrative become a persistent, multiyear national political issue? 🗳️
2020, with an important historical distinction.
Donald Trump publicly promoted claims of millions of illegal votes after the 2016 election. Following his 2020 defeat, allegations of widespread election fraud continued through subsequent election cycles, with noncitizen voting becoming an especially prominent recurring claim during the 2024 campaign.
Therefore, 2016 marks the earlier national prominence; 2020 marks the post-election escalation; and 2024 marks another major resurgence.
🗳️ 2. Is Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential election loss an established, legally certified fact? 🗳️
Yes.
Joe Biden
306 Electoral votes
/
Donald Trump
232 Electoral votes
Certified results recorded by the National Archives. Biden also won the national popular vote by approximately 7.05 million votes.
Biden’s victory was legally certified, and audits, recounts, and litigation did not establish fraud sufficient to overturn the result.
🗳️ 3. Does empirical evidence support widespread noncitizen voting involving tens or hundreds of thousands of ballots? 🗳️
No verified evidence establishes that claim.
Actual state audit findings include:
Investigation/Documented findings:
Georgia, 2024
▫️20 noncitizens registered; 9 had voted in previous elections
Nevada, 2016
▫️100 noncitizens registered; 3 voted
Brennan Center, 2016
Approximately 30 suspected incidents among 23.5 million ballots examined
These findings establish that noncitizen voting occurs, but do not establish a nationwide problem involving tens or hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots.
🗳️ 4. What is the exact nationwide conviction count over the past six years, and how does it compare with total ballots? 🗳️
An exact, comprehensive nationwide count for November 2020–November 2026 is not established by the available records.
Two particularly useful documented findings are:
100 cases: The Heritage Foundation’s database included approximately 100 documented cases of noncitizen voting from 1982 through 2025, according to Brookings. These are not necessarily all convictions, and the database is not a complete nationwide census.
14 convictions or guilty pleas: ProPublica’s August 14, 2026 investigation identified 14 such outcomes in a particular federal enforcement initiative through May 2026. This is not the total across all federal and state jurisdictions over six years.
For scale, approximately 424 million ballots were cast in the 2020 presidential, 2022 House, and 2024 general elections combined.
Illustrative mathematical comparison:
Hypothetical documented cases
* 100
Cases per million ballots
* 0.236
Percentage of ballots
* 0.000024%
🗳️ Bottom line
The evidence supports three factual conclusions: Trump lost the certified 2020 election; isolated instances of illegal noncitizen voting have occurred, but are statistically insignificant; and verified audits and prosecutions have not established the alleged nationwide scale of tens or hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots.
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Kellyanne — He’s hopped up on Adderall, terrorizes the nation with his demented bullshit for 12hours, burdens us with more corruption, insanity, and outrageous behavior —THEN he’s brought down by benzodiazepines so he can sleep for three hours before waking his fat, decrepit ass to torment us for another day. Manufactured energy. Insane bullshit.
Donald Trump is a National Disgrace.
THE BOTTOM LINE: GREED. POWER. CONTROL.
Musk is spending hundreds of millions of dollars in an electoral environment where government decisions can affect billions of dollars in corporate revenue, investment value, and tax benefits.
The publicly documented money trail establishes the size of that financial interest. It does not, by itself, establish a quid pro quo or prove that any individual campaign contribution was exchanged for official action.
If he loses congressional allies, the most consequential exposures are increased scrutiny, less favorable legislation, changes in appropriations, and reduced political access. If state leadership changes, his companies could also face different subsidy and tax policies.
And that is precisely why scrutiny of large political contributions matters: the public has a legitimate interest in knowing whose businesses benefit from government decisions, who finances the officials making them, and whether those decisions serve the public interest.
Surface-to-air missiles have been installed at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion. This is the kind of thing authoritarians have to do to protect themselves from the people they've wronged. telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026…
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The context
The delivery
Her velvety voice & aristocratic accent with unusual origins *see ℹ️
The eloquence, articulation, and art of communication 🗣️
ℹ️ Cate Blanchett sounds aristocratic because she speaks with an unusually refined, precise, and carefully articulated Australian accent that has strong similarities to upper-class British English.
What's particularly interesting is that she isn't British at all. She was born in Melbourne, Australia, but her natural speaking voice has qualities that many people associate with British aristocracy.
What makes her sound so aristocratic?
1. Her cultivated Australian accent. Blanchett speaks a polished form of Australian English, with relatively few of the broad vowel sounds commonly associated with stereotypical Australian speech. It can sound remarkably close to British Received Pronunciation (RP), historically associated with Britain's educated upper classes.
2. Her extraordinary diction. She pronounces consonants distinctly, controls her vowels, and rarely slurs or runs words together. This gives her speech an almost theatrical elegance.
3. Her measured rhythm and intonation. She often speaks deliberately, using carefully placed pauses, changes in pitch, and emphasis. The result can sound commanding, sophisticated, and occasionally imperious.
4. Her theatrical training. Blanchett graduated from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). Classical theatrical training emphasizes breath control, vocal projection, articulation, and the ability to adopt different accents and social registers.
5. Her screen roles reinforce the impression. She's frequently portrayed royalty, aristocrats, and powerful women, including Elizabeth I. Audiences naturally associate her distinctive vocal delivery with those characters.
There's also an interesting linguistic explanation
Linguists distinguish between Broad, General, and Cultivated Australian English. Blanchett is frequently cited as an example of Cultivated Australian English, the variety most closely resembling British RP.
Blanchett herself has acknowledged that her accent changes depending on her surroundings. She says she sounds noticeably more Australian when she's back home with family.
What I find particularly distinctive is that she doesn't simply sound upper-class; she sounds authoritative. Her low, resonant voice, controlled pacing, and crisp articulation create an impression of intelligence, confidence, and social command.
Interestingly, those are qualities we culturally associate with aristocracy, even though an accent alone tells us very little about someone's actual social background.
If I could ask for any retroactive personal gift from God, it would be: The gift of verbal articulation in communication.
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Well that was one hell of a closing argument tour by Trump on behalf of candidates. He salivated over men’s body parts, said high gas prices are good because oil companies are making billions, bragged about his ballroom, and said if he gave people $5k they still couldn’t afford to buy dinner at his club.
Krista Stephens retweeted
Well that was one hell of a closing argument tour by Trump on behalf of candidates. He salivated over men’s body parts, said high gas prices are good because oil companies are making billions, bragged about his ballroom, and said if he gave people $5k they still couldn’t afford to buy dinner at his club.
A truly wonderful moment for my mother, Marie. ⚾️
A lifelong cheerleader for the @Brewers 🏆
