Some of you might remember my Facebook post from the day after the 2024 election about how “off” the results felt to me. I also posted the week before the election about how, while so many people were in a panic, I felt fine.
I have always relied heavily on my intuition, and it has mostly served me well. I might not always like situations or outcomes, but I can usually see a logical explanation for how those things came to fruition based on how people act and react to things.
Some people say this is called being an “empath.”
But I hate that word and never use it because it’s so misused. The term has been hijacked by people who confuse being able to break down thought patterns with some kind of supernatural emotional superpower. You can have heightened sensitivity to other people’s emotional states without being empathetic to them. You can be highly sensitive without being highly emotional.
Being highly sensitive to emotional cues is really just advanced pattern recognition. It’s noticing the slight tension in someone’s jaw, the microaggressions in their eye movements, the shift in their tone, the way they frame arguments, and who the victim is in the scenarios they communicate or the stories they tell themselves about the world they live in. It’s basically just multi-layer observation.
The “empath” crowd loves to confuse being emotionally reactive with being emotionally intelligent. But having big feelings about other people’s feelings doesn’t make you special – it just means you have poor emotional boundaries. Real emotional intelligence is being able to recognize patterns without getting swept up in them.
And let’s be honest – a lot of self-proclaimed empaths are just using their “sensitivity” as a get-out-of-jail-free card for their own emotional regulation issues. “I’m not being dramatic – I’m just feeling everyone’s energy.” Sure you are – and Mercury being in retrograde is why you missed your deadline.
The ability to break down thought patterns is a skill – not a spiritual gift. You can develop it through practice and observation. But many people, like me, developed it through childhood trauma. When your life is often dictated by the erratic emotional states and actions of adults, you learn to read them as a defense mechanism.
It’s very easy for me to get inside someone’s head and follow their line of thinking to see their perspective. I can see how they reached their point of view while also seeing their mistakes in logic and their biases.
All this to say that as soon as I heard the election results, my intuition immediately told me that something was off, like really, really off.
I woke up right after 4 AM the day after the election because my dog Lucy was crying at the door to go out. This was not normal for her; she usually doesn’t go out until around 7 AM. After I got out of bed and let her out, I flipped on the television at the exact moment NBC was calling the election for Donald Trump.
I had a visceral reaction to the news. It felt like a gut punch. It felt ominous. It felt like a lie.
Have you ever had someone lie to your face, and you know that they’re lying, but you need time to process the lie before you point out that they’re lying?
Like, you just respond with – okayyy. And because you didn’t push back, they think that you bought the lie, but really, all you’re doing is thinking about it every day and working out your cross-examination so that when you do confront them about the lie, you’ve thought through all of their possible explanations or defenses, and you have a prepared argument against those too?
Oh, only me?? 😀
I’ve been doing that since the day after the election. While I haven’t kept quiet about not believing the election’s outcome, I have been waiting for more people to become open to the possibility before going all in.
Whether it was part of an overall plot or just a happy coincidence, it is completely understandable why most people would not want to replicate the same claims that were so easily disproven in the 2020 election. I think that’s why so many people have been scared to speak up about their own intuitions.
Wouldn’t it be crazy if the plan was to make election deniers seem crazy so that people wouldn’t speak out about future elections?
Anyway, I think people are ready now to consider the possibility of some rigorry. So, I am going to start laying out an argument for this.
But it can’t be done in a single post because there is no smoking gun. I don’t have any kind of insider information, and there is no whistleblower. There is only a set of factual arguments that, when put together, show that there is a missing piece of the puzzle.
I am going to attempt to put the puzzle together in front of you and show you where the missing pieces are. I don’t personally know how to find the information to fill in this missing information – but I do know that in an algebraic expression, in order to solve for X – you must first know all of the other variables.
So, that’s what I am going to attempt to gather and share.
Since Facebook isn’t a great way to organize information, I brought Rachelandthecity.com back from the grave. I plan to still share everything here – but I’ll also post it there so it can easily be searched and I can connect ideas and information.
Let’s go.
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