Starker on 6/11/2019 at 05:43
I'd say the DNC leaks came pretty handy at the time too. Remember, this was when Lord Dampnut was caught on tape openly bragging about sexually assaulting women. In fact, the first batch was published on the same day.
And that's nothing to say about the whole Cambridge Analytica thing and Lord Dampnut's campaign manager giving polling data to Russians.
Renzatic on 6/11/2019 at 06:08
Yeah, the DNC leaks didn't help either. Though didn't the Cambridge Analytica reveal come well after the election?
Starker on 6/11/2019 at 06:42
Yes, I think it was in 2018 when we found out they had mined Facebook users' data without their consent.
Anyway, I would not underestimate the degree to which Russia ratfucked the US election. The public portion of the Mueller Report alone paints a pretty damning picture.
Renzatic on 6/11/2019 at 07:07
I'm hoping at some point they end up siding with a Democrat, cuz then everyone'll start taking it seriously.
Tony_Tarantula on 9/11/2019 at 20:54
Quote Posted by Renzatic
The whole Russian interference thing is but one point out of many that ended up serving to benefit Trump. Putin's activities were more aimed towards stoking an already easily riled crowd, and probably didn't do much overall to swing the election in Trump's favor. It was basically a viral marketing campaign meant primarily to sow discord and paranoia, not convince Jenny the Suburban Soccer Mom to vote straight ticket Republican.
If I were to pick two things as being responsible for Hillary losing in 2016, it'd be Hillary herself, and her lackluster campaigning in the Rust Belt, assumed to be surefire wins to be taken for granted, but ended up being the very states that gave Trump his narrow victory, and James Comey for reopening the case into Hillary's email server a bare week before the election.
That's a remarkably cogent take. Keep in mind they were backing race-baiting organizations like Black Lives Matter with the aim of sowing racial discord in the United States.
Fun fact: Hillary's going to get into the race in January. That's NOT a prediction on my part. I'm hearing secondhand that she's going to jump into the race in January.
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Yes, I think it was in 2018 when we found out they had mined Facebook users' data without their consent.
Anyway, I would not underestimate the degree to which Russia ratfucked the US election. The public portion of the Mueller Report alone paints a pretty damning picture.
What did they do specifically?
Tony_Tarantula on 10/11/2019 at 22:40
So Holy Crap.
You all are in for a rude awakening if you think that getting rid of Trump will result in a "return to sanity"Look at the reception Don Jr. got at his book event.
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https://twitter.com/BetrayedVal/status/1193638473636270080)
It's a shitshow. The audience was in full on revolt and mostly sided with the "America Firsters".
[video=youtube;dp9j8hl7gMg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp9j8hl7gMg[/video]
Tony_Tarantula on 17/11/2019 at 16:40
The Atlantic just published an entire issue headlined the topic titled “How to Prevent a Civil War”.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/press-releases/archive/2019/11/atlantics-december-2019-issue/601795/)
Are you all STILL going to stubbornly insist that this is just crazy talk when one of the more prestigious, serious, papers is devoting an entire article to the topic? Or is it a very real risk that needs to be taken more seriously than a joke?
Nicker on 17/11/2019 at 17:10
Who said the possibility of Trump invoking mass violence was a joke?
Tocky on 17/11/2019 at 18:13
I did. Civil war is what white supremacists have been pushing the last few decades and they see their chance with Trump in office. No doubt they have more riled up old people than ever before but they are not going to get their guns en mass and start shooting liberals. Violence at this or that demonstration? Yeah. Been happening since the civil rights era. Some citizen army of angry old white guys and their young rebel and Nazi flag waving haters? Nah. They can't get much more than the usual rabid idiots and those will be quelled by police. It isn't a joke in that stoking this hatred causes things like Charlotte but organized storm troopers against ANTIFA or something that sweep the land searching house to house in some Crystal Nacht? Nah.
Trump can cause more individual nuts to go on mass shootings though. Lot's of rabid supporters are on the verge of that. We have seen that already and it could increase. Most fat old racists are not very apt to get out of their recliners though.
june gloom on 27/11/2019 at 15:19
I realize this is a few weeks old, but I don't need Hillary Clinton to tell me what I already know: that Tulsi Gabbard is a piece of shit Assadist.
