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Zorro

(17,957 posts) Sat Oct 4, 2025, 12:55 AM 4 hrs ago

MAGA's Top "Voter Fraud" Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn't Live There.

A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec votes in one state and lives in another.

Jack Posobiec is very concerned about voter fraud. An influential MAGA voice and prominent conspiracy theorist, he’s perhaps best known for amplifying the 2016 “Pizzagate” conspiracy, which culminated in a man firing a gun in a D.C. pizza restaurant. In the years since, Posobiec has loudly espoused a range of debunked conspiracy theories. That includes the GOP theory—once semi-fringe and now thoroughly MAGA mainstreamed—that Democrats have won elections via millions of fraudulent votes. The Republican National Committee last fall enlisted him to speak to poll watchers about election security. Posobiec is particularly focused on Pennsylvania, repeatedly accusing the state’s Democratic officials of fraud, even spreading conspiracy theories that were followed by an RNC lawsuit.

The focus on voter fraud in Pennsylvania is particularly ironic because it sure looks like, and a trail of documentation suggests, that Posobiec is living in Maryland but voting in Pennsylvania. If so, that would be a violation of voting laws, experts say.

The 40-year-old Posobiec has voted in Pennsylvania elections from 2004 to 2024, both in person and by mail, according to a copy of his voting record viewed by Slate and the Handbasket. Until 2016, Posobiec used military and civilian overseas ballots. After resigning from his job as a Navy Reserve intelligence officer in 2017, he remained in Maryland while becoming a full-time influencer and political activist with groups such as Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA. He continued voting in Pennsylvania via absentee ballots and, later, in-person on-demand mail voting, using his parents’ home address in 2018, 2022, and 2024, according to an official copy of his voter information file from Montgomery County obtained through a right-to-know request.

There’s nothing untoward about any of that, provided Posobiec actually lives in Pennsylvania. But the evidence is extremely strong that he doesn’t. Instead, it suggests that, despite growing up in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Posobiec has lived in Maryland for almost a decade.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/10/jack-posobiec-voter-fraud-pizzagate-maga.html

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MAGA's Top "Voter Fraud" Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn't Live There. (Original Post) Zorro 4 hrs ago OP

The current AG in PA is a Republican so no charges are likely although they should throw the book at the hypocrite. LonePirate 4 hrs ago #1

Posobiec is the author of "Unhumans" -- the far, far, far right dystopian vision of fascism saving the world pat_k 4 hrs ago #2

LonePirate

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1. The current AG in PA is a Republican so no charges are likely although they should throw the book at the hypocrite.

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Sat Oct 4, 2025, 01:04 AM

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pat_k

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2. Posobiec is the author of "Unhumans" -- the far, far, far right dystopian vision of fascism saving the world

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Sat Oct 4, 2025, 01:19 AM

4 hrs ago

Unhumans

Forward by Bannon,
Blurbed by J.D. Vance, Don Jr., and Tucker Carlson, among others.

Opinion
Michelle Goldberg
JD Vance Just Blurbed a Book Arguing That Progressives Are Subhuman
Aug. 5, 2024

Paywall free link to NYTimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/opinion/jd-vance-fascism-unhumans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Bk4.xGes.1_ONuyrQ-M2p&smid=url-share

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“Unhumans,” an anti-democratic screed that Posobiec co-wrote with the professional ghostwriter Joshua Lisec, comes with endorsements from some of the most influential people in Republican politics, including, most significantly, vice-presidential candidate JD Vance.

As they tell it, modern progressivism is just the latest incarnation of an ancient evil dating back to the late Roman Republic and continuing through the French Revolution and Communism to today. Often, they write, “great men of means” are required to crush this scourge. The contempt for democracy in “Unhumans” is not subtle. “Our study of history has brought us to this conclusion: Democracy has never worked to protect innocents from the unhumans,” write Posobiec and Lisec.

One of their book’s heroes is the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, who overthrew the democratic Second Spanish Republic in the country’s 1930s civil war. The authors call him a “great man of history” and compare him to George Washington. They quote him on what doesn’t work against the unhuman threat: “We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box.”

Nakedly authoritarian ideas like this one are not uncommon in the dank corners of the reactionary internet, or among the sort of groups that led the Jan. 6 insurrection. “Unhumans” lauds Augusto Pinochet, leader of the Chilean military junta who led a coup against Salvador Allende’s elected government in 1973, ushering in a reign of torture and repression that involved tossing political enemies from helicopters.

Pinochet-inspired helicopter memes have been common in the MAGA movement for years. And as the historian David Austin Walsh wrote last year, there’s long been a cult of Franco on the right. Nevertheless, it’s extremely unusual for a candidate for vice president of the United States to openly align himself with autocratic terror.
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Back in early Aug 2024, I wrote, "I am mystified that the title of this book and the author isn't being spread as far and wide as the danger of project 2025. Unhumans goes so much farther down the dystopian authoritarian path."

By blurbing this book, Vance, Carlson, and Don Jr. are endorsing the glorification of the reign of murdering facists like Franco and Pinochet nd endorsing a vision of DT/Vance leading a similar purge.

When I first posted on this at the beginning of August 2024, I got 4 recs. I was frankly a bit shocked that the response seemed to be a bit of a "nothing new to see here."

Back then, we were less than three weeks into the nascent Harris campaign. The focus was rightly on hope and joy. And I agreed that focusing on positive change -- and particularly instilling hope that transformative change IS possible -- was crucial important. But I also said we CANNOT ignore the implication of this book and how utterly horrifying the premise and "solutions" offered are.

The Trump regime is playing the Unhumans playbook of branding anyone who is against them as Subhuman entity (an enemy within) that must be utterly destroyed by whatever means he deems necessary, far more effectively than the Christian Nationalist 2025 agenda.

Posobiec is SO, SO, SO, SO, so, so must worse than an example of hypocrisy and the big lie of "voter fraud."

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