Occupy Democrats election PAC looks to have dispersed $40K to Moscow Mitch, $250K to a firm they own

[Celerity]

They literally ✨occupied✨ Democrats

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1575213820414291968.html

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1575183501695291392.html

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1574043514761101314.html

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https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?cycle=2022&data_type=processed&committee_id=C00718510&recipient_name=C00193342&two_year_transaction_period=2020














Occupy Democrats is a dodgy clickbait site that pushes fake news and CT far too often, all in a cynical cash grab, plus it has stolen content with little to no attribution many times.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/occupy-democrats/

https://www.politifact.com/personalities/occupy-democrats/

Wikipedia bans Breitbart, InfoWars, and Occupy Democrats as fact sources

https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/latest-links/wikipedia-bans-breitbart-occupy-democrats-fact-sources/

[flying rabbit]

1. K&R nt

[Demsrule86]

26. I am so glad I neve sent them a dime...I could never stand them and ripped up the crap they

sent...I hate groups like that and now we know they supported their criminal asses and the Republicans...I would love to see the books on the People's Party and on Green's.

[BComplex]

2. Holy shit! So Occupy Democrats is just another way for republicans

to occupy democratic donations?

[Dorian Gray]

21. Republicans

AND themselves.

Yep.

[WhiteTara]

25. he swears it's a clerical error

but none the less, he and his brother are the major recipients of all those funds.

[Ligyron]

3. K to the R

I get texts from them every day as many of us no doubt do but if this is confirmed I'm outta there.

[fleabiscuit]

27. Time for you to leave. n/t

[GoCubsGo]

4. So, you're just saying that this is more Republican fraud?

I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you!

[FreepFryer]

5. Boomer memes $. thank you for posting! Occupy Democrats has been a disinfo grift for a while. nt

[OneGrassRoot]

6. Following. Thanks! n/t

[LittleGirl]

7. Thank you for the heads up!

I’m unfollowing that group immediately!
Done!

OMG, they have 10 million followers!

[NoMoreRepugs]

8. Damn, I do not like being pissed over my morning coffee.

[NJCher]

24. me either

but I have an idea. Can we use this in Mitch's next election to cast shade on Mitch with his voter base?

(psst, Mitch isn't really a republican.)

Disinfo? Yes. But maybe not if all that's done is to show the IRS form in ads. Just do that, nothing else, and let the voter figure it out.

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Besides that, though, it makes me furious that Democratic dollars went to this major PITA for us.

[Lasher]

9. K&R

[Sympthsical]

10. So they memed and pocketed a bunch of the money?

Probably just learned it from a certain other Republican group also widely disseminated in liberal spaces.

Obvious cash grabs are obvious.

I'll never understand people who read or share Occupy. They constantly have things blatantly wrong or false. Blatantly. I've called it out here more than a few times, but they just kept getting posted.

Where's the integrity? Where's the credibility? This is why I only read the Palmer Report. It's about trust.

[FreepFryer]

13. i see what u did there (nt)

[Dorian Gray]

22. LOL to Palmer Report.

[Elessar Zappa]

11. They also spread fake news.

[Botany]

12. I wonder it there is any connections between Occupy Democrats, Russia (cozy bear/FSB), ....

.... GOP operations/"think tanks", and Facebook?

Looks to me that we have double agents inside a phony pro democratic organization.

Hello DoJ ... gotta have broken some kind of laws in their operation. Raising money for
pro democratic memes and then kicking it back to themselves.

"...a quarter-million dollars of what the group raised over this past election cycle, Mitchell pointed out, went to Blue Deal LLC, which is owned by Occupy Democrats' founder Omar Rivero and his brother, Rafael...."

[Sympthsical]

18. Not much different from the Lincoln Project

Who have quite famously paid themselves, friends, and family handsomely with all their fundraising.

YouTube videos and tweets ain't that expensive.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/08/us/politics/lincoln-project-weaver.html

The behind-the-scenes moves by the four original founders showed that whatever their political goals, they were also privately taking steps to make money from the earliest stages, and wanted to limit the number of people who would share in the spoils. Over time, the Lincoln Project directed about $27 million — nearly a third of its total fund-raising — to Mr. Galen’s consulting firm, from which the four men were paid, according to people familiar with the arrangement.

Tell people what they want to hear. Make some tweets or videos that can spread on social media as part of the "cause." Enjoy a retirement funded entirely by other people.

I didn't even know Occupy had a fundraising arm. I just thought they were some Twitter randos who were being dishonest for viral clicks. People sending them money feels like sending a pastor dollars for Jesus. It should be obvious it's a terrible idea, and yet the common sense doesn't click.

[panader0]

14. Why, somebody oughtta.....

[Farmer-Rick]

15. They aren't very liberal

Occupy Democrats don't seem to know what liberal is.

Wow, it's more than just not knowing what's liberal, it's a scam. Giving campaign contributions to Moscow Mitch?

Glad I never gave them a red cent.

[ecstatic]

16. Unbelievable. Smh. Glad I never donated.

I have to look through my history but I don't think I give that much to PACs, especially not PACs with a questionable history. In recent years I believe it's only been Fair Fight and maybe Move On before that. Everything's a blur now.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

17. lolollolllllllll honestly

[Sympthsical]

19. I almost feel guilty

For finding this so delicious.

Almost.

[Dorian Gray]

20. They're obvious grifters

from the start. I get frustrated when I see people share them. (But I have a sensitivity to all click bait type feeds.) From the KRassenstein brothers to Brooklyn Dad Defiant to Eric Feigl Ding, I am wary of people who promote themselves and un-nuanced soundbites.

[lindysalsagal]

23. This sounds bad for us, but luckily, the only benefactor was Mitch

so they're not likely to bring it up....