Posted on 12/30/2016 8:35:30 AM PST by kindred
Between jeremiads decrying “fake news,” the mainstream media has created and advanced the biggest fake news story of 2016: That the presidential election was hacked. •“Obama Strikes Back at Russia for Election Hacking” New York Times •“Obama administration unveils retribution for Russia over election hacking allegations” CNBC •“U.S. Slaps Sanctions On Russia For Election Hacking, Expels 35 Diplomats” CBS •“Obama sanctions Russian officials over election hacking” USA Today •“U.S. Sanctions Russia Over Election Hacking; Russia Threatens to Retaliate” Wall Street Journal
Despite the histrionic claims of the press, the election was not hacked. The Democratic National Committee’s lousy IT security allowed someone to access their emails which were then leaked. Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta fell for an age-old phishing scam that was as believable as getting millions of dollars from a Nigerian prince. Using the spotty media understanding of cybersecurity, they can claim that the DNC and Hillary’s campaign were “hacked,” but the election decisively was not. And the press knows it.
In order to “hack” an election, a nefarious group would have to infiltrate the voting systems of 50 states, plus DC and territories. All of these systems are unique, with completely different architecture, ballot formats, tabulation processes, etc., etc. This did not happen. In fact, some hackers tried breaking into a few different states’ systems weeks before the election, were quickly identified, and prevented from doing so. Likewise, someone attempted to gain illegal access to the Republican National Committee, but since they had a competent IT staff, this too was thwarted.
But even without delving into the technical details, it’s obvious that the election wasn’t hacked. If, say, Russia wanted to elect Trump, they would have given him the popular vote victory along with his electoral victory. They also wouldn’t have left him to squeak out meager wins across the upper midwest and rust belt.
The media is intentionally lying to the public because they want a better excuse for Election Day than the reality. They would rather focus on hacking, the popular vote, FBI Director James Comey, or the minuscule alt-right, instead of accepting that American voters slightly preferred Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton, at least in the states where it counted. People wanted change over the ineptness, cronyism, and stagnation of the Obama era. They didn’t trust the utterly untrustable Clinton and liked her even less.
The harsh reality is this: Hillary Clinton is the worst presidential nominee in American history. And if the media is actually concerned about fake news, they will drop the election hacking lie and just admit that their candidate was a disaster.
The election was hacked.
The Democratic primary election, that is.
And the hackers were the folks running the DNC and various Dem state parties (CA, IL, AZ, NV, and NY being particularly egregious).
I wonder if anyone is going to do the investigation to get to the real root cause of why hundreds of thousands of Sanders voters got re-registered at the last minute as non-Democrats while almost no Clinton voters did.
(Hint: the DNC had Sanders’ mailing list.)
You forgot
7. Not have the President of the US announce that all immigrants who are in the county illegally should be sure to vote.
Remember this headline from WAshington Compost 2 weeks before election:
Donald Trump’s chances of winning are approaching zero ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/24/donald...
Watch video · Donald Trump’s chances of winning are approaching zero. The inside track on Washington politics.
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Should be forever referred to as the NY Daily Fake News.
8. Conviction of voter fraud terminates government entitlements.
As another freeper said, “If the election could have been hacked Hillary would be president”.
But, anyone with more than 4 or 5 functioning brain cells knows the Russians had nothing to do with any of it.
Sadly millions of people you describe are democrat voters. Those with more brain cells make use of those with low brain cell count.
He's not stupid - just predisposed to accept claims that support his beliefs, such as 'Trump bad'.
I have some SILs like that too. very intelligent in most areas. Politics, not so much. It just seems so obvious that the story is bull, that it’s hard to imagine anyone falling for it.
Uh...Buc, sitting in for Rush today, is speaking with John Schindler at this moment.
If the election was hacked and helped elect Trump; if it wasn’t hacked, to those who helped elect Trump:
Thank you.
Something to bear in mind: states control the election process, even for federal elections. Different states have chosen different election systems. Paper, scanned, electronic, digital, etc. The systems are chosen and implemented by the states, not the federal government, thank goodness.
In theory there could be 50 different systems.
Thread Winner!!!Now that was a hack if there ever was one!
There was also that thing where he announced that 8.) All Blacks MUST vote for the Democratic candidate.
Where do I sign up to help? Oh and term limits for Congress too.
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