He won’t always be President!
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That’s deplorable. If only there were a basket for such people.
Though politicususa has a left bent, they are quoting Time which is pretty much straight up neutral.
Before you say the connection has yet to be proven, you’re right. But what else would the Russians do with hacked election data, if not make it available to their favored candidate?
Well, Trump did seem pretty certain that the election was being rigged, if I remember correctly.
This puts stories like this one from election day into a new light, no?:
*"Durham County Board of Elections Chair Bill Brian said the county took its electronic voting system offline after problems popped up at several precincts. Poll workers were unable to look up voter registration information digitally, so they turned to paper records. That requires the use of paper forms, and when some precincts ran out of the forms, voting ground to a halt.
“It appeared that some of the data from prior elections had not been cleared out, and people were being improperly listed as having already voted,” Brian said. “They didn’t have the right software, it appears. Why that happened, we don’t know yet.”"*
If voting was made more difficult in some counties than others, that is no different than changing a vote. If this is true (usual caveats), how doesn’t this invalidate the whole damn thing?
IF it’s not invalid if the republicans do it, it’s not invalid if the russians do it either.
All one needs to do is identify those counties and precincts that can flip a state and how many voters to disenfranchise it takes to do it. Do that in just a few states and you can steal the White House- and quite possibly did.
Bwahahahaazzzzzzz
BobLibDem, there’s no such thing as a “possible smoking gun.” If you don’t see the smoke yet, you gotta wait.
As for what else Russia could do with that data, they could use it to refine their Facebook and Twitter propaganda strategies.
I’m still waiting.
In last night’s show, Rachel Maddow laid out the case fairly clearly for a concentration of ‘messing with the voter rolls, etc.’ in counties and precincts that traditionally lean Democratic.
(It’s her lead segment, which as is often the case, has a slow build–it starts with information about Oliver Stone’s Putin documentary/hagiography. Patience will be rewarded with the Democratic-leaning-precincts stuff after a couple minutes.)
Dems push leaders to talk less about Russia
I really hope the “leaders” do not listen.
We’ve got that latest on that. It was totally a hoax that never happened and its Obama’s fault that it did.
Benjamin Wittes, pal of Comey, posted on Twitter some tease that something is coming. He’s posted “Tick, tick, tick” before, and there was a boom.
Today was significant. Trump may not be able to brush aside controversies about his behavior as president, but he can absolutely muddy the waters and weaken the public’s resolve to get to the bottom of the case. He can absolutely make the argument that if the Russian attempts to hack the election weren’t important enough for Obama to stop, then why are we investigating them now?
My criticism of Obama’s handling of Russia still stands. He was too much of a puss to confront Putin when it mattered, and his (and Kerry’s) attempts to lash out at Putin with 2 weeks left in their term was a fraudulent attempt at manhood.
Of course he can make that argument. I mean, it’s an incredibly stupid argument, so I fully expect that he will make that argument.
What was the boom last time?
You can call it “stupid” if you want. But if progressives are trying to peel away at Trump’s support, they’re going to have a hard time if all they do is rely on the Russia investigation.
If Obama is honest, he will admit that he didn’t think Thrump had any chance of winning and was working on a quiet, powerful cyberresponse to Putin. I recall posting back then that I expected the Moscow Subway to suddenly grind to a halt and the sewage treatment plants to begin dumping raw sewage in to the River next to the Kremlin.
I think that was, more than any other reason, the reason for what looked like a tepid response to Putin’s meddling. No expectation it was going to change anything, and HRC would be able to follow through on setting up the timebombs in the Russian computer systems. It could, validly, be called part of the response to the Ukraine rebel support and the Syrian tyrant support.
In fact, Russians also have elections.
Tell another joke.