Here's yet another bombshell that the media is going to sweep under the rug.
Remember the popular Occupy movement of a decade ago that the media hated so? There's still little shards of debris out there exploiting the Occupy banner, and one of them is Occupy Democrats. They claim to be a group of Occupy supporters within the Democratic Party - but all they do is spew venom. They don't contribute a damn thing that's positive. Nothing they post is recognizably Occupy.
Now it's been found that just before the 2020 election, the Occupy Democrats Election Fund donated $40,000 to the McConnell Senate Committee – as the Senate Republican leader cruised to reelection. Even after the Democrats completely abandoned the bedrock values of their historic supporters, Mr. Elbow Care remained one of the worst Republicans out there.
Just as shocking, it took 2 years for anyone else to find it. We never would have found it, because we never would have thought to look for it, and we don't have enough staffers to look for it. A larger operation has no excuse not to find it more quickly.
Wikipedia says Occupy Democrats "publishes false information, hyperpartisan content, and clickbait." Yet somehow, the group's posts "are among the most widely shared political content on Facebook." The University of Iowa library said Occupy Democrats "has been known to show misleading, fake, or exaggerated partisan content." The Valencia College library placed Occupy Democrats on a list of sources that "cannot usually be accepted at face value and need further verification from other sources to determine if information is credible." Even the Atlantic said Occupy Democrats is "studded with straightforwardly fake news", and BuzzFeed said Occupy Democrats once published a satirical story as fact. Yet Joe Biden's 2020 campaign worked directly with Occupy Democrats for its messaging.
But wait! There's more! A devastating new article in the Raw Story says founders of Occupy Democrats are being accused of pocketing donations to the group. According to these allegations, the founders funneled money they raised through their PAC into their own businesses and donated precisely zero to Democratic campaigns. Hundreds of thousands of dollars went to "fundraising consultants." Yes, they fundraised to pay for "fundraising consultants."
One of the founders claimed that Occupy Democrats is a superPAC, so it can only spend donations on consultants and messaging, because it is not allowed to donate to candidates. So why did it donate to McConnell? One reporter said that's because it's actually not a superPAC but a hybrid PAC. This means Occupy Democrats is too dumb to even know how its own PAC works.
A commenter on the Raw Story piece asked if Occupy Democrats was a Republican front all along designed to scam Democrats into donating. Another said there is a history of the rich hijacking movements for financial gain. I think the only difference between Occupy Democrats and other groups is that Occupy Democrats got caught. I know MoveOn and Drinking Liberally are scams. I don't think MoveOn always was a scam, but it has been since at least 2020.
What about all the "progressive" blogs that all suddenly shifted to COVID maximalism and began supporting lockdowns at the exact same moment? Who was paying them off? It doesn't seem likely that these blogs would abandon their principles unless they were being paid off.
The Occupy Democrats scandal ought to raise suspicion about other shitlib organizations and blogs. But it probably won't, because the media won't cover it.
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