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liberalla

(11,220 posts)
Tue May 19, 2026, 10:01 AM 8 hrs ago

Elon Musk's Ex, Ashley St. Clair, Confirms He Rigged the 2024 Election

Last edited Tue May 19, 2026, 12:39 PM - Edit history (1)


Elon Musk’s Ex, Ashley St. Clair, Confirms He Rigged the 2024 Election Using Technology

from ThisWillHold.

This is about yesterday’s breaking news:


"Ashley St. Clair—Elon Musk’s ex-girlfriend and the mother of one of his children—took to TikTok seemingly to relieve her conscience over what she says was Musk’s technological interference in the 2024 election.

At one point during the full 15-minute video, she states: “If you thought Cambridge Analytica was bad, it’s nothing compared to this technology… it’s destroying democracy.”

Earlier in the recording, St. Clair acknowledges the harm caused by her role as a pro-MAGA influencer, even explaining how “Dark MAGA” came to be. She describes gifting Elon the black hat he later wore to the now-infamous rally, after which he began texting her updates in real time as events unfolded.

She then pivots to the election conversation, beginning in October 2024."

There is an excerpt from the video: (video at link)


I just saw this new post from TWH. I'm about to leave for work...
I haven't been able to read it all --- but I know half of DU will want to see this, and the other half will not (to put it mildly).



*** Editing to add video



This video from Politics Girl, Leigh McGowan, makes the point that it's reasonable to question -- not crazy.
She even includes the 2024 election...
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Elon Musk's Ex, Ashley St. Clair, Confirms He Rigged the 2024 Election (Original Post) liberalla 8 hrs ago OP
Another lie from this substack EdmondDantes_ 8 hrs ago #1
So, you're saying conclusively DV1 7 hrs ago #4
Based on all the available evidence no it wasn't EdmondDantes_ 7 hrs ago #7
So your asking them to prove a negative? paleotn 6 hrs ago #15
I so wish it were Miguelito Loveless 5 hrs ago #28
They seem to throw around the word "rigged" a lot to garner attention ToxMarz 6 hrs ago #11
That's a really weird miss-statement of what Cambridge Analytica did. Scrivener7 3 hrs ago #57
No it isn't EdmondDantes_ 2 hrs ago #60
Yes it is. Scrivener7 52 min ago #62
Nothing in there about changing cast votes EdmondDantes_ 45 min ago #63
Your argument was that all they did was "persuade people to vote for Trump." Scrivener7 38 min ago #64
Trump and Musk already admitted so this is conformation. Blue Full Moon 17 min ago #66
Conspiracy theories targeting MAGA is perfect Johonny 7 hrs ago #2
BlueAnon RetiredParatrooper 7 hrs ago #3
American citizens overseeing their own vote count is what the founders questionseverything 3 hrs ago #51
Bull. Lies. Nonsense. Please delete. mr715 7 hrs ago #5
Yeah, how dare anyone think Trump & Co would do something underhanded! 31st Street Bridge 3 hrs ago #52
Implicitly accusing both Biden and Harris of ineptitude and/or malevolence mr715 3 hrs ago #54
Dems/some group need to subpoena her and obtain a bench warrant for all the real time texts she got from Musk. ancianita 7 hrs ago #6
AND an order to take custody of all the ballots in all of the voting locations that showed the vote-flipping pattern. Bluetus 4 hrs ago #37
K & R bookmarking FakeNoose 7 hrs ago #8
Don't be gullible. This is how THEY act when THEY lose. FascismIsDeath 7 hrs ago #9
More bullshit for This Will Hold Wiz Imp 7 hrs ago #10
AMEN! ancianita 6 hrs ago #17
I'm Certain This Is Accurate ProfessorGAC 6 hrs ago #12
And the other half is not suprised. ananda 6 hrs ago #13
The addiction to these conspiracy theories is really quite pathetic. tritsofme 6 hrs ago #14
Conspiracy 'theories" can become investigations, which can then become allegations, and/or filed charges. There is ancianita 6 hrs ago #18
Believing a theory a priori because it makes you feel good mr715 6 hrs ago #19
It isn't just the believing that makes them so. Belief based on what's probable can, through effort, change a "theory', ancianita 5 hrs ago #25
I guess I distinguish between "belief" and "believing" mr715 5 hrs ago #31
And what's the difference given those both have the same corroboration? EdmondDantes_ 6 hrs ago #23
I hear you. ancianita 5 hrs ago #27
The Starlink Conspiracy Theory was debunked long ago Wiz Imp 3 hrs ago #49
The people who continue to deny this operation occurred have no clue about the technical issues involved Bluetus 4 hrs ago #40
Musk's Starlink Was Not Connected to Vote Tabulation Wiz Imp 3 hrs ago #47
Sure, it's not like the government is hiding flying saucers from the public. Kid Berwyn 6 hrs ago #21
It is discouraging that so many people here are in such deep denial Bluetus 4 hrs ago #43
Wasting precious time on such, when we should be using the time build a voter base to hatch and execute winning plans... littlemissmartypants 4 hrs ago #45
Maybe I'm missing something, but all that story says is that Musk knew the results of the election earlier than he Fil1957 6 hrs ago #16
If musk knew the vote early he was tampering with the election and was into the Central Tabulators and the Botany 5 hrs ago #24
Coincidentally, the internet shut down for hours across states in months running up to Nov 2024. More than one source ancianita 5 hrs ago #30
O.K. which one of these things is wrong? Botany 6 hrs ago #20
Where is the evidence beyond vibes? mr715 6 hrs ago #22
Almost every one of those points can be .. Botany 4 hrs ago #33
None of them are evidence regarding the specific claim. mr715 4 hrs ago #38
Authentic Frontier Gibberish Botany 6 min ago #67
Love the plausible timeline. But is there a credible link to make the timeline credible? Here's what DTC Starlink is ancianita 4 hrs ago #34
Also, lasers have fuck-all to do with Starlink's potential to interfere with voting machines. LudwigPastorius 4 hrs ago #35
Of course not. It's was an EXAMPLE of an impossible to prove conspiracy theory. The Starlink connection is through ancianita 24 min ago #65
I will graciously accept apologies from people who accused me Bluetus 5 hrs ago #26
All federal election material, by law has to be kept 22 months questionseverything 5 hrs ago #29
Have you noticed that neither Musk nor Trump care about any laws? Bluetus 4 hrs ago #36
Have you noticed neither of them are able to chew gum mr715 4 hrs ago #41
No, I have not noticed that about Musk. Bluetus 2 hrs ago #58
In my county in Illinois I can do a foia and look at the ballots for the last questionseverything 4 hrs ago #42
Absolutely. Even if it isn't explicitly allowed by law Bluetus 4 hrs ago #46
Please don't be offended but I think we spend too much time trying to figure out "how " questionseverything 3 hrs ago #50
I'm not offended, but that sounds pretty quixotic to me Bluetus 2 hrs ago #59
This is just embarrassing. LudwigPastorius 5 hrs ago #32
I'm not a big believer in this particular theory. BannonsLiver 4 hrs ago #39
lol, is probably good enough? questionseverything 4 hrs ago #44
Abracadabra! danieljsf 3 hrs ago #48
Ashley obnoxiousdrunk 3 hrs ago #53
Post removed Post removed 3 hrs ago #55
Down-ballot Discrepancies LessAspin 3 hrs ago #56
Find 11,780 Votes LessAspin 2 hrs ago #61

EdmondDantes_

(2,072 posts)
1. Another lie from this substack
Tue May 19, 2026, 10:19 AM
8 hrs ago

Notice the source said it was a more powerful version of what Cambridge Analytical did. That is used social media to persuade people to vote for Trump. That's not vote rigging or changing votes. To jump her statement to rigging votes is fundamentally dishonest.

Her other statements about Musk saying he knew early Trump would win, exit polls and having good estimates on what turnout you predict you need are things. Also Musk regularly lies to boost himself. It's not out of the question he was just bullshitting to make himself seem more important.

There's nothing here to support their breathless conclusions and given their consistent lies, no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt.

EdmondDantes_

(2,072 posts)
7. Based on all the available evidence no it wasn't
Tue May 19, 2026, 11:12 AM
7 hrs ago

Evidence that it wasn't rigged

Post election audits.
Election results in line with polls.
We won a bunch of down ticket races including in states Harris lost.
The conspiracy would require Democrats in the election process to be incompetent or corrupt.
The Harris campaign and the Biden administration didn't complain.
The people claiming it was rigged have presented lies and overstatements.

Evidence it was rigged
None that has stood up to scrutiny.

Sure in theory all the evidence could be wrong, but in theory there could be Martians living under the surface but nothing supports that.

paleotn

(22,735 posts)
15. So your asking them to prove a negative?
Tue May 19, 2026, 11:59 AM
6 hrs ago

That's not how this works. Might as well asked them to prove Santa doesn't in fact exist. How this is supposed to work is you make the claim, YOU back it up with evidence.

So far the evidence is very, very thin amounting to merely claims without evidence. Given the complexity, variability, and size of the US election system, a rational view is more than likely it wasn't tampered with directly. With the power of social media, you really don't have to.

Miguelito Loveless

(5,920 posts)
28. I so wish it were
Tue May 19, 2026, 01:03 PM
5 hrs ago

But we have to face the fact that 33% of the electorate opposed fascism, 34% supported fascism, and 33% didn't vote, so they chose fascism by default.

Using social media to sway people is disinformation/propaganda, not vote "rigging". "Rigging" an election is very hard and very illegal when you get caught. Voter SUPPRESSION and LYING is VERY effective and entirely LEGAL.

ToxMarz

(3,065 posts)
11. They seem to throw around the word "rigged" a lot to garner attention
Tue May 19, 2026, 11:41 AM
6 hrs ago

Anything could be deemed "rigging" if that's useful, but it is by definition not. What they should be saying is "influenced". Which no doubt he did. That's what campains are for, to influence voting. These are however shady forms of influence being orchestrated corruptly in many cases. While not correctly identified as rigging, they should be addressed and some sort of accountablity or regulation put in place. But for them, the more they throw around the idea that elections are rigged, no matter the context, it works to their advantage.

EdmondDantes_

(2,072 posts)
60. No it isn't
Tue May 19, 2026, 03:50 PM
2 hrs ago
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/07/the-great-hack-facebook-cambridge-analytica/

Not one thing about changing cast votes. Just helping send targeted messages to persuade people to vote for Trump. If you have something that says Cambridge Analytica changed votes after they were cast, feel free to share. Otherwise I was accurate. Campaigns to get people to do a thing isn't illegal. We all get targeted advertising constantly on the Internet. It sucks and it's manipulative, but that's advertising. Drinking Bud Light isn't going to make me the center of attention at a party, but every ad of theirs sells that image.

Internet advertising has lots of privacy violations, but we don't have a data privacy law in the US. It's gross and immoral, but it's not illegal and it's not changing votes after they were cast or stuffing the ballot box which is what rigging requires.

Scrivener7

(60,071 posts)
62. Yes it is.
Tue May 19, 2026, 05:32 PM
52 min ago

They did a lot more than "persuading people to vote for Trump."

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EdmondDantes_

(2,072 posts)
63. Nothing in there about changing cast votes
Tue May 19, 2026, 05:39 PM
45 min ago

Just really effective psychology at getting people to change their mind.

Please point me to anything that says they changrd cast votes or stuffed the ballot. Otherwise, there's really nothing there but a semantic argument.

Scrivener7

(60,071 posts)
64. Your argument was that all they did was "persuade people to vote for Trump."
Tue May 19, 2026, 05:46 PM
38 min ago

There's a lot more to it than that, including accessing, without consent, the personal data, contact information and posting history of just about every American who uses Facebook. Then giving that information to military-trained psy-op teams with the express purpose of fucking with the posters' heads and radicalizing them.

Blue Full Moon

(3,651 posts)
66. Trump and Musk already admitted so this is conformation.
Tue May 19, 2026, 06:07 PM
17 min ago

This needs to be investigated. Also corresponds to the Starlink.

Johonny

(26,603 posts)
2. Conspiracy theories targeting MAGA is perfect
Tue May 19, 2026, 10:40 AM
7 hrs ago

These low info voters are an easy target and we're seeing significant fracturing of the "MAGA" movement. They don't need to vote Democratic if they don't vote at all, it's a win.

RetiredParatrooper

(222 posts)
3. BlueAnon
Tue May 19, 2026, 10:55 AM
7 hrs ago

Don't get distracted with stuff you can do nothing about without control of the House or Senate.

Focus on the task at hand.

questionseverything

(11,972 posts)
51. American citizens overseeing their own vote count is what the founders
Tue May 19, 2026, 02:41 PM
3 hrs ago

Thought would protect the country

Unfortunately we have let corporations ( owned by 1%ers) take over our vote counting process and as you can see from this thread even questioning those corporations brings out the “swarm “

ancianita

(43,358 posts)
6. Dems/some group need to subpoena her and obtain a bench warrant for all the real time texts she got from Musk.
Tue May 19, 2026, 11:06 AM
7 hrs ago

No one can really prove what Musk has done, unless it's through discovery in a federal court or ... Unless the NSA has access to his Starlink and low orbit satellite system codes.

We DU'ers knew Musk was dangerous in 2024. When Biden invited his Facebook followers to text him (and gave his number), I wrote him this on Nov 9 ... Just thought I'd put this out there because at the time, the "tabulator issue" in battleground states was being kicked around on DU.

I deeply believe that you can still lead the nation by example -- to send a final message to the nation about oligarch rule through the White House.

In your last 70 days,

-- have the State Department permanently revoke Elon Musk's citizenship due to the fact of his lying on his application about the fact of his undocumented status;

-- have the U.S. Treasury permanently ban Musk from conducting business with the U.S. and its allies;

-- have yourself as commander-in-chief revoke Trump's citizenship for proving himself a national security threat by his continued communications with Vladimir Putin, who has been declared an international criminal by the International Criminal Court under the Rome Statute articles: (8(2)(a)(vii) and 8(2)(b)(viii); article 25(3)(a); article 28(b).

-- order Musk and Trump be deported to the Russia-Ukraine front, from which the Russian president can retrieve them if he so wishes.

The soul of this nation needs some grace to live through a dark time ahead, and you have the humility and courage to help.

The nation might survive its rule of law battles but lose the war with Mammon.

Thank you for reading. Thank God for your forty years of leadership.

P.S. Musk's successors at Space X and its subsidiary Starlink can be his chief engineers, signed on as agents of current contracts.

Bluetus

(3,085 posts)
37. AND an order to take custody of all the ballots in all of the voting locations that showed the vote-flipping pattern.
Tue May 19, 2026, 02:03 PM
4 hrs ago

FakeNoose

(42,406 posts)
8. K & R bookmarking
Tue May 19, 2026, 11:17 AM
7 hrs ago

Thanks for posting this, I never would have seen it otherwise.

We ALL suspected as much, but she spells it out for us. I wonder if "something" will happen to her?

FascismIsDeath

(261 posts)
9. Don't be gullible. This is how THEY act when THEY lose.
Tue May 19, 2026, 11:21 AM
7 hrs ago

I'd prefer we be the sober adults in the room and not try to comfort ourselves with obvious lies.

Wiz Imp

(10,411 posts)
10. More bullshit for This Will Hold
Tue May 19, 2026, 11:24 AM
7 hrs ago

She never confirmed "He Rigged the 2024 Election Using Technology". They even admit that in their text:

The implication here is that St. Clair believed Musk was involved in something improper or illegal and wanted plausible deniability.

An implication of what she believed is NOT confirmation of anything. They are simply interpreting something she said to serve their own purposes.

This will Hold is 100% disinformation.

ancianita

(43,358 posts)
18. Conspiracy 'theories" can become investigations, which can then become allegations, and/or filed charges. There is
Tue May 19, 2026, 12:16 PM
6 hrs ago

a difference between plausible conspiracy theories (when evidence is hidden but still searched for) and impossible conspiracy theories (that no amount of science or investigative skills can support).

Conspiracy theories like Jewish space lazer beams haven't turned up anything because there's been nothing to turn up.
Conspiracy theories like Starlink's likely having uploaded and downloaded data, including code, can indeed be investigated.

mr715

(4,161 posts)
19. Believing a theory a priori because it makes you feel good
Tue May 19, 2026, 12:18 PM
6 hrs ago

undermines the nature of investigation and truth seeking.

There is no difference between jewish space lasers and Elon uploading code into starlink.

They are both based on nothing and nonsense.

ancianita

(43,358 posts)
25. It isn't just the believing that makes them so. Belief based on what's probable can, through effort, change a "theory',
Tue May 19, 2026, 12:36 PM
5 hrs ago

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Not so with effort made on a belief in the impossible, which melt away much sooner than the former kind.

EdmondDantes_

(2,072 posts)
23. And what's the difference given those both have the same corroboration?
Tue May 19, 2026, 12:20 PM
6 hrs ago

Everything we've seen from this substack has been disproven. These claims vastly over state what St Clair actually said to the point of being dishonest. Given the history of the substance being dishonest, why should this be given any benefit of the doubt?

ancianita

(43,358 posts)
27. I hear you.
Tue May 19, 2026, 12:44 PM
5 hrs ago

You make fair points. And yet the high credibility lies in Musk's Starlink's upload/download history of data and code. Which, for plausible deniability's sake, Muxk wouldn't breathe a word about even to Trump, nevermind an ex.

Bluetus

(3,085 posts)
40. The people who continue to deny this operation occurred have no clue about the technical issues involved
Tue May 19, 2026, 02:07 PM
4 hrs ago

This was all very much within the skill set of the Starlink and Palantir people. And it would not have taken many people. A team much smaller than the DOGE kiddies would have been plenty, if they were the right ones.

Wiz Imp

(10,411 posts)
47. Musk's Starlink Was Not Connected to Vote Tabulation
Tue May 19, 2026, 02:30 PM
3 hrs ago
https://www.factcheck.org/2024/11/musks-starlink-was-not-connected-to-vote-tabulation-contrary-to-online-claims/
Musk’s Starlink Was Not Connected to Vote Tabulation, Contrary to Online Claims
Quick Take
Elon Musk’s Starlink system helped provide internet access to communities affected by the recent hurricanes. But online posts spread baseless claims that Starlink “uploaded votes in swing states” and helped Donald Trump win the election. Experts said voting machines are not connected to the internet during tabulation; one state election official called the claims “utter garbage.”

Full Story
President-elect Donald Trump won the presidential race propelled by victories in all seven swing states. Trump not only won the electoral college, but he is ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris in the popular vote by about 2.6 million votes, as of Nov. 18.

In a statement days after the election, Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, wrote, “As we have said repeatedly, our election infrastructure has never been more secure and the election community never better prepared to deliver safe, secure, free, and fair elections for the American people. … Importantly, we have no evidence of any malicious activity that had a material impact on the security or integrity of our election infrastructure.”

Nevertheless, baseless accusations of 2024 election interference have spread on social media. Most recently, claims from partisan users are targeting Elon Musk’s Starlink system, a division of SpaceX that provides satellite-based broadband internet.
............

Kid Berwyn

(25,091 posts)
21. Sure, it's not like the government is hiding flying saucers from the public.
Tue May 19, 2026, 12:19 PM
6 hrs ago

Or Uncle Sam lies America into illegal, immoral and unnecessary wars for profit.

Or Epstein being protected from the law since way before Iran-Contra.

And yet, here some are amazed at what criminals in government service did and do.

Bluetus

(3,085 posts)
43. It is discouraging that so many people here are in such deep denial
Tue May 19, 2026, 02:13 PM
4 hrs ago

These MFers are evil. Trump is a dumb ass, but Musk isn't, and he can put together -- and reward handsomely -- teams to do these kinds of things.

These same people don't seem to have trouble understanding that Erik Prince and his Blackwater MFers were for real, and still ARE F-ing with the rest of the world on the US taxpayer's dime. But that's because guns are easier to understand than computer systems and invisible networks.

The level of denial here really is shameful, considering that there wasn't a single recount, not a single effort of any sort by the DNC to follow these claims. Our friends here are, unbelievably, willing to not even look into the possibility that Musk and Trump actually did what they said they were going to do to the 2024 election. Yet they will come here every day and debate polls and messaging. NONE OF THAT MATTERS if there is a person who can do what St. Clair described.

littlemissmartypants

(34,354 posts)
45. Wasting precious time on such, when we should be using the time build a voter base to hatch and execute winning plans...
Tue May 19, 2026, 02:18 PM
4 hrs ago

Is the most pathetic of all.

Fil1957

(875 posts)
16. Maybe I'm missing something, but all that story says is that Musk knew the results of the election earlier than he
Tue May 19, 2026, 12:03 PM
6 hrs ago

should have. Not that he tampered with the vote..

Botany

(77,861 posts)
24. If musk knew the vote early he was tampering with the election and was into the Central Tabulators and the
Tue May 19, 2026, 12:34 PM
5 hrs ago

Last edited Tue May 19, 2026, 01:32 PM - Edit history (1)

Operating Systems of Dominion Voting Systems and E.S.&S. Voting Systems. The story is that firmware patches were placed onto those systems and his DTC Starlink low earth orbit satellites allowed for that.
I personally think that it went well beyond just looking @ the voting results but just by looking @ that
vote early was a clear violation of the law. The returns from voting are put out by the Sec. of State’s
office not by some billionaire dirt bag.

Google DTC Starlink.

ancianita

(43,358 posts)
30. Coincidentally, the internet shut down for hours across states in months running up to Nov 2024. More than one source
Tue May 19, 2026, 01:08 PM
5 hrs ago

has examined why 2024 was a year of many internet shutdowns.

2024 Worst Year For Internet Shutdowns Since 2016
RTTNews
https://www.rttnews.com › 2024-worst-year-for-internet-...

Why 2024 Was The Worst Year for Internet Shutdowns
Tech Policy Press
https://techpolicy.press › why-2024-was-the-worst-year...


Government-forced internet disruptions hit record high
Axios
https://www.axios.com › Technology


Global elections in 2024: Internet traffic and cyber threat ...
The Cloudflare Blog
https://blog.cloudflare.com › elections-2024-internet



Botany

(77,861 posts)
20. O.K. which one of these things is wrong?
Tue May 19, 2026, 12:19 PM
6 hrs ago

January 2024 — Musk begins fast-tracking the launch of the new low-earth-orbit DTC constellation, a project that experts said should have taken 2+ years to build.
February 2024 — Musk files paperwork for his America PAC. (So his support had nothing to do with the “assassination” attempt as claimed.)
May 2024 — Peter Thiel funds Polymarket.
May 2024 — Eaton Corporation, with access to roughly 70% of U.S. election equipment infrastructure, announces a deepening relationship with Thiel’s Palantir.
July 2024 — Musk launches America PAC, a voter-information harvesting and Trump fundraising operation, using Republican Chain Bridge as its financial institution.
September 2024 — Eaton, with access to roughly 70% of U.S. election equipment infrastructure, partners with Elon Musk and Tesla.
October 4, 2024 — Republican bank Chain Bridge launches its IPO.
October 5, 2024 — According to The New York Times, Elon Musk texts a friend, who we now believe to be St. Clair:
“I’m feeling more optimistic after tonight. Tomorrow we unleash the anomaly in the matrix.” An hour later, he adds: “This isn’t something on the chessboard, so they’ll be quite surprised. ‘Lasers’ from space.”

October 7, 2024 - Musk laughingly tells Tucker Carlson in an interview: “If Trump loses I’m fu*cked. How long do you think my prison sentence is going to be?”
October 30, 2024 - the DTC satellites launch, activating the constellation of 265 units, less than a week before Election Day.
October 30, 2024 — Republican Chain Bridge Bank shares surge to more than three times average trading volume.
October 30, 2024 - Peter Thiel’s Polymarket predicts the exact outcome of the presidential election.

Trump, I don’t need anymore votes. He said that 3 times on the campaign trail.
Musk, I have a special app that lets me see the results early.




mr715

(4,161 posts)
38. None of them are evidence regarding the specific claim.
Tue May 19, 2026, 02:06 PM
4 hrs ago

Six. Six is the number of the beast. The word beast has 5 letter. 5 Letters, like 5 fingers. Where do you find fingers? On a hand. When you take 5 fingers and 1 hand what do you get 5+1 = 6. So 6. 5 fingers + 1 hand is 6. 6 x 6 is 36, which is 6 groups of 6. When you add 3 + 6 you get 9, which is an upside down 6.

ancianita

(43,358 posts)
34. Love the plausible timeline. But is there a credible link to make the timeline credible? Here's what DTC Starlink is
Tue May 19, 2026, 01:35 PM
4 hrs ago
from Google DeepMind:

Starlink Direct to Cell (DTC) is a satellite-to-mobile technology that turns orbiting Starlink satellites into space-based cell towers. It enables standard, unmodified smartphones to connect directly from space, eliminating coverage gaps in dead zones without requiring bulky satellite phones.

How It Works

Cell Towers in Space: Starlink satellites are equipped with advanced 4G/LTE modems (eNodeB). They hover in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) about 320 to 530 kilometers above the Earth, communicating directly with your phone using your carrier’s standard frequencies.

No Equipment Needed: You do not need to purchase specialized hardware, a new device, or download any special apps. Your phone connects automatically when outside.

Phased Rollout: Services are being rolled out gradually in phases: first offering SMS text messaging, followed by data capabilities (like iMessage, WhatsApp, and Google Maps), and eventually voice and video calling.

Current Capabilities & Limitations: Because mobile phones don't transmit with heavy power, DTC requires a clear line of sight to the sky. Indoor reception can be poor as thick walls, roofs, and dense foliage can block the signal.

Bandwidth: Data speeds are limited and are intended primarily for emergency SOS, coverage in remote areas, or light communication, rather than high-definition video streaming.

Network Partners SpaceX has partnered with major wireless carriers around the world to offer this service to their existing subscribers.

In the United States, T-Mobile is the primary launch partner, offering coverage in previously unreachable areas using the T-Mobile Satellite Phone Service network. Other global partners include Rogers (Canada), One NZ (New Zealand), Salt (Switzerland), KDDI (Japan), and Entel (Chile/Peru).

LudwigPastorius

(15,006 posts)
35. Also, lasers have fuck-all to do with Starlink's potential to interfere with voting machines.
Tue May 19, 2026, 01:53 PM
4 hrs ago

The Starlink network does not use lasers to communicate with the earth. It uses radio waves, like almost all commercial satellites. Starlink ground stations then send the signal to conventional internet servers to be distributed around the globe.

If somebody were to try to fuck voting machines (most, by law, are never connected to the internet), there would be no reason to originate the attack from satellites because it's just an extra unnecessary step.

I'm sure Elon Musk's mention of "space lasers" to this influencer person wasn't him trolling her. It's not like he has a lengthy public record of lying to people.

ancianita

(43,358 posts)
65. Of course not. It's was an EXAMPLE of an impossible to prove conspiracy theory. The Starlink connection is through
Tue May 19, 2026, 06:00 PM
24 min ago

cell towers, not the Internet. So whether the tabulator are or are not connected to the Internet, Starlink can still access them. There's no other material reason why Trump and Musk said they knew the outcome early. None.

Bluetus

(3,085 posts)
26. I will graciously accept apologies from people who accused me
Tue May 19, 2026, 12:39 PM
5 hrs ago

of spreading CTs when I provided this exact same information a year ago.

A conspiracy? Yes, absolutely.

A theory? No, not so much. This needs to come out fully or else we can never have real Presidential elections again.

To recap, Musk, Palantir, and ESS conspired to rig the 2024 election by introducing remote control over a relatively small set of tabulator machines at the precinct levels of swing states. This conspiracy has its roots in the takeover of ESS by Republican partisans decades ago, followed by decades of work at the state and county levels to get ESS implanted as the de facto US election system, representing over 70% of election systems nationwide and the majority supplier in 100% of the swing states.

The nature of the attack was to remotely control the tabulators that exist in every polling place that uses ESS. Musk identified the tabulators as the weak link because they were believed to be completely isolated from the outside world, and were not actually the "official" vote. The ESS systems uses paper ballots that can be recounted, so the tabulators were seen simply as a faster way to get results to the county HQ, and if there were controversies, the paper ballots could be recounted.

So the Musk plan was to use Starlink to establish remote control over the minimum set of tabulators required to flip the election. By August 2024, Musk had demonstrated the ability to take remote control over the tabulators, and it was at that point that Musk and Trump both started talking openly about "nobody knows more about the election counting computers than Elon Musk".

The exact level of ESS participation in this particular rigging operation is not clear. There is an implication that they were not tightly involved because the Trump people had multiple teams in the field commandeering tabulator machines ostensibly to reverse engineer them. This is the whole story of the Tina Peters case. ESS could have provided those details directly, and evidently did not.

What remained was a mathematical/statistical problem to determine which tabulators needed to be taken over (for purposes of active vote flipping, plus many others needed to be monitored on election day without actually flipping votes). The game was to dynamically determine (through reports of early voting and by monitoring the tabulation in real time) how many votes to flip. They needed to flip enough to get past any recount thresholds. That is where Palantir came in, as well as the above reference to Cambridge Analytica. This analysis was a lot more complicated, but that is what Palantir does. That is their core competency.

It all went as planned. On election day, Musk had an app on his phone that showed him how the vote flipping was going, so much that by 4PM, he proudly declared to friends that the election had already been won.

They hit their numbers, and not a single recount happened. Had anybody recounted, simply running the paper ballots through a tabulator known not to be compromised, election officials would immediately have seen that the reported results were all wrong -- that is to say, the down ballot numbers were not tampered with, only the Trump-Harris vote -- and there were radical disparities between Trump-Harris versus the down-ballot in a specific set of election sites, and those patterns were seen nowhere else. But none of these recounts happened and in all likelihood, the paper ballots have been destroyed by now,

The major elements of this scheme have been known for a long time and it is maddening that Democrats don't seem to even care, or perhaps they don't have the technical depth to put the pieces together.

So indeed, let's see the Dem post-mortem as Pelosi and Harris are calling for. Let's see if the DNC is totally oblivious or simply chose to ignore all of this.

Bluetus

(3,085 posts)
36. Have you noticed that neither Musk nor Trump care about any laws?
Tue May 19, 2026, 02:02 PM
4 hrs ago

If they executed the scheme I described above, also described by Ms. St. Clair today, do you think either Musk or Trump would be bothered by the destruction of the ballots. Any reasonable person should assume they have been lost, damaged, soaked in a flood, accidentally used as toilet paper or otherwise taken care of long ago.

And BTW, the election was 18 months ago. In 4 more months they can be destroyed legally. Is anybody going to do anything to try to preserve that evidence?

mr715

(4,161 posts)
41. Have you noticed neither of them are able to chew gum
Tue May 19, 2026, 02:07 PM
4 hrs ago

without ending up in dog shit?

Bluetus

(3,085 posts)
58. No, I have not noticed that about Musk.
Tue May 19, 2026, 03:30 PM
2 hrs ago

He has managed to make himself the richest person in the world, at least on paper.

And Trump has managed to accumulate several billion dollars in the past 14 months, mainly by completely disregarding laws.

Frankly I have very little patience for anybody arguing that our system of laws will prevail.

questionseverything

(11,972 posts)
42. In my county in Illinois I can do a foia and look at the ballots for the last
Tue May 19, 2026, 02:11 PM
4 hrs ago

Election ,

If that’s available to people in the area in question, they should do that but I was really surprised it’s not allowed that way everywhere…. Makes me wonder what they are hiding

Bluetus

(3,085 posts)
46. Absolutely. Even if it isn't explicitly allowed by law
Tue May 19, 2026, 02:24 PM
4 hrs ago

we could be filing cases to preserve those ballots and to make them available for inspection. To my knowledge that has not been done ANYWHERE.

And let me reiterate, the nature of this operation, as alleged was:
* To operate only in swing states because nothing else matters in Presidential elections
* To monitor many polling stations (without flipping votes) in order to have confidence in just how many votes to flip
* To actually flip votes in a relatively small number of voting locations

These are easy to identify because they show Trump winning by a much greater percentage than shown on the down-ballot races, and that pattern was essentially binary. The pattern existed very clearly from a specific set of tabulators, and nowhere else.

My guess is that there were several hundred ESS tabulators involved in flipping votes across all 7 ESS-dominated swing states. It isn't a huge number. But to make that work, we need politician who understand something about computers, a team of lawyers who understand even more about computers, and a cadre of judges who are able to make sense out of legal arguments involving complicated computer schemes. That's the problem. We've got very little of that.

questionseverything

(11,972 posts)
50. Please don't be offended but I think we spend too much time trying to figure out "how "
Tue May 19, 2026, 02:36 PM
3 hrs ago

And not enough time on the lack of transparency

It should not be up to the citizens to have to prove the government wrong, the government should have to prove their conclusions to us!

Bluetus

(3,085 posts)
59. I'm not offended, but that sounds pretty quixotic to me
Tue May 19, 2026, 03:38 PM
2 hrs ago

The opacity is intentional. Power does not give up power voluntarily.

I'm not against advocating for more transparency. But we have an election already underway right now. How do we know that Musk and Trump are not using these same tactics to rig the primaries. I have no reason to believe that is happening, other than the fact that they boasted of doing this with regard to the 2024 Presidential election, BEFORE, DURING, and AFTER the election. So we most certainly should not rule out the continued use of what worked before. Republicans always over-reach.

We can debate the merits of a focus on exposing the facts versus establishing new transparency las (which will likely be ignored), but at this point I'd welcome ANY action on this front. AFAIK, it has been completely ignored but 100% of the DNC and party establishment.

BannonsLiver

(20,856 posts)
39. I'm not a big believer in this particular theory.
Tue May 19, 2026, 02:06 PM
4 hrs ago

However, suspending disbelief for a moment if one were to examine this seriously two questions would need to be resolved.

1. What would have been the desire, aims, will for Elon Musk to alter election results? Would he want to do it in the first place?

2. Would he have had the ability to alter results?


The answer to question No. 1 is not debatable. Yes, he would absolutely alter results if given the opportunity. He’s made clear his views on Democracy. He’s also a very low character guy, which is also not debatable. So I feel comfortable in believing he would do it if he had the ability.

The answer to question No.2 is a solid “probably not”.

Response to liberalla (Original post)

LessAspin

(2,018 posts)
56. Down-ballot Discrepancies
Tue May 19, 2026, 03:01 PM
3 hrs ago

This is why Trump complains so much about 2020

Trump knows the Fix was in for 2016 - 2020 - 2024

So he can't come to grips with the fact he lost so bigly in 2020 that Biden overcame the rigging. It's always projection with Trump..





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