Well, this is interesting!

Former State Department official, Mike Benz, the founder of the Foundation for Freedom Online posted a very interesting tweet today on the CIA, former President Jair Bolsonaro, the US State Department, and electronic voting machines in Brazil.

Mike Benz sat for an interview with Tucker Carlson earlier in the week where he first discussed the Biden regime’s efforts to interfere in the 2022 reelection of populist favorite Jair Bolsonaro.

The Gateway Pundit posted this morning on the Biden regime, the US Military, the State Department, and the CIA’s efforts to alter the election results in Brazil in 2022. The Biden regime decided it was in its best interest to support the communist Lula da Silva in the election and to fund the censorship ecosystem and subvert the populist Bolsonaro administration.

Mike Benz published more shocking information on how the US State Department interfered in the 2022 election by pushing semiconductors made by Nuvoton, a Taiwanese company, used in voting machines.
Via the Financial Times.

Then, at the same time, the CIA and State Department warned President Bolsonaro to honor the results of the election.

So the CIA was pushing Brazil to install specifically Nuvoton semiconductors into their voting machines in 2022. It should be noted that Brazil uses voting machines and does not use paper ballots.

Bolsonaro, like Donald Trump, was wildly popular as president yet somehow he lost a tight race to the criminal socialist Lula da Silva.

And the CIA and State Department was working against Bolsonaro and in support of the red socialist, Lula.

Elon Musk responded to the tweet, posting, “Interesting<” in the understatement of the year.

Interesting https://t.co/dOMwzY7Kot

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 30, 2024

For more background — Here is our earlier post on Brazil and the Biden State Department from earlier today.

Report: US State Department Funded the Censorship Ecosystem in Brazil to Subvert Bolsonaro Administration – As the Biden Regime Sent CIA, Defense Department, US Military Officials to Brazil to Interfere with Election

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Dollar General suffered a record one-day drop as the company’s stock tanked amid a warning about the struggling U.S. consumer.

The Thursday trading day marked a slaughter for Dollar General, seeing the stock crater by an eye-watering 32.01 percent, according to Barron’s.

It was the company’s worst one-day decline in history, smashing the previous record drop of 19.5 percent set on June 1, 2023. Dollar General has been publicly traded since 2009.

Dollar General is no small player.

According to the Financial Times, the Tennessee-based company has over 20,000 locations across all but two states.

The retailer’s painful decline hints at larger troubles with consumers and the American economy.

Dollar General’s core customers are typically from households that bring in less than $35,000.

Todd Vasos, chief executive of the Dollar Store chain, said that group of people is feeling more “financially constrained” than ever.

“The majority of them state that they feel worse off financially than they were six months ago as higher prices, softer employment levels and increased borrowing costs have negatively impacted low-income consumer sentiment,” Vasos said in a Thursday earnings call.

The higher prices Vasos mentioned are in large part due to inflation — a force that has raised prices on goods across the board under the administration of President Joe Biden and his upstart deputy Vice President Kamala Harris.

Inflation works as a double-edged sword against consumers, who have to face higher prices with a U.S. dollar that is rapidly losing its purchasing power at home and abroad.

Rural towns and poorer areas, where Dollar General concentrates its locations, are among those places most affected by economic downturns.

Under this hostile environment, Dollar General’s CFO Kelly Dilts said the store’s typical customer has “started to run out of money by the end of the month,” Financial Times reported.

Compounding the problems for Dollar General are societal issues all stores are now facing: chiefly, shoplifting and other forms of theft.

Dubbed “shrink” in the retail industry, unscrupulous customers’ constant five-finger discounts are a slow drain on any location targeted. Businesses that opt for private security also have to consider increased labor costs from this and the possibility of lawsuits or destructive confrontations.

Some stores have invented novel and radical ways to reduce theft, including a one-on-one shopping experience where each customer is guided by an employee.

Obviously, these strategies may help to lower theft, but inevitably lead to a less-than-ideal atmosphere for average consumers.

If the situation does not improve for Dollar General and the American consumer, more financial pain is guaranteed to be felt.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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