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The Winners Are the Russians
Townhall.com ^ | June 18, 2017 | Bruce Bialosky

Posted on 06/18/2017 4:54:21 AM PDT by Kaslin

You set off to invade and disrupt the election process of a global competitor. Your desire is to weaken the other’s government. Except for potentially being responsible for leaking emails obtained from political operatives of one party, it is acknowledged and confirmed by responsible parties that you failed in your efforts to change the voting in your competitor’s election. You succeeded in hacking into zero voting apparatus of their election operation. Yet as a side effect you disrupt the state of your competitor’s new government to an extent you could never ever contemplate. What a percipient plan?

If you ever thought Putin was an evil genius, then it appears he has succeeded beyond even his wildest dreams. Even though the head of the FBI stated in his testimony that the Russian attempts to intercede in our election started in 2015 and were aimed at both Republicans and Democrats, Putin finds the perfect foils. He finds Hillary Clinton, a leading candidate who set up a questionable email server that exposed her high-level state department information. He then finds the Democratic National Committee that sets up wholly inadequate protections for their email system. And lastly he finds one of the most prestigious and experienced political operatives in America, John Podesta, who sets up his email with a password of – password.

Luck plays into to Putin’s hands. Luck that even a KGB operative could not dream of receiving. The leading candidate to win the election, Hillary Clinton, runs an abysmal campaign. As delineated in the book Shattered, written by two authorized, left-leaning journalists, it becomes clear that Clinton could never even establish a rationale for her candidacy. She has a cast of characters surrounding her campaign that would make the great Russian novel, War and Peace, seem easy to follow. She loses crucial Mid-Western states’ votes to a disheveled Socialist, but never adjusts the campaign to win those voters in the general election six months later. She flat out ignores them. She raises a billion dollars, yet her campaign is always short of money.

Her campaign is so bad she losses to a first-time candidate in what shocked her and her party. They find her opponent uncouth and undeserving. Not only did she lose the election, but she lost to him.

Putin now has two willing accomplices, the Democrats and the American Press. He does not even have to raise a finger. The only thing being discussed in the adversary country is Russian interference in the election because the humiliation of losing to him and he being President is too much. Also, it serves their purposes to derail his political agenda. They have become such a minority party and their policies are so unpopular in the country that the only way they can succeed is by embracing him (Putin) and blaming him (Putin) for all crimes, thus accusing the new President and his allies of collusion with the Putin. After all, they could not have lost any other way. It does not matter whether evidence exists; we must search for that evidence for the next four years.

Putin then finds another willing accomplice in the form of the head of the national law enforcement agency of the country he so wishes to disrupt. That person makes himself a national spectacle by interceding in the election process inflaming the losing candidate and her party, antagonizing the victorious President, getting fired by said President and then testifying about it all in a self-serving manner.

But Director Comey exposes himself during his own testimony.

One of the biggest reveals of the Comey testimony is the Obama Administration’s complicity in a cover-up and coordination with the Clinton campaign. Attorney General Loretta Lynch not only lied about her meeting with Former President Clinton on the tarmac, she specifically directed Comey to lie about the activities of the FBI by mischaracterizing the nature of the investigation. Comey displayed his true character by going along with the improper and unethical and possibly illegal order from the Attorney General. He neither protested nor pushed back on her or ignored her direct order.

Tellingly, Comey was concerned about the potential for Trump lying about his conversations between them, but did nothing about Lynch actually ordering him to lie.

Which leads one to believe what had happened to Comey from the time he built his legend by threatening to resign during the Bush Administration. He admitted to being told to lie to the public by the Attorney General (Lynch), but just rolled over. He then went forward to the public about the investigation into Clinton’s emails telling us in detail why she should be indicted, but then established a new legal standard for obfuscating on the potential crimes involved. He runs to the press again after finding Clinton’s chief aide had shared classified information with her husband on their joint computer, but quickly backs down from that investigation.

Yet then he gets scared by a president who Comey stated clearly never did anything wrong regarding the underlying matters, but Comey for once was unwilling to run to a microphone and tell the world that. He then gets fired and acts in a vengeful manner by calling into question his boss’s actions that he would never question to his boss or to the proper authorities concurrent with the supposed events. He then leaks information of a meeting he had with the President while in a high position of public trust and states he had become a private citizen so he had a right to disclose that information.

Somewhere between the incident in 2004 and today Comey became a deeply confused man and/or a coward.

Putin sits in his seat of power relishing all this. He need not spend a dime as he watches his adversary self-destruct. He needn’t order any more hacking.

Over 60 years ago, Nikita Khrushchev told Western diplomats “Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!" He might be feeling vindicated at this time and the Russians did not even have to fire a shot. They appear to be winning.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Russia
KEYWORDS: drivebymedia; presidenttrump; trumprussia; vladimirputin; winning
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1 posted on 06/18/2017 4:54:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

“You set off to invade and disrupt the election process of a global competitor. Your desire is to weaken the other’s government”.......

To begin with, who disrupted the election process first? Did the US come in with Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook in late 2011 and disrupt the Russian legislative election and repeat again in the spring of 2012 the Presidential election?

Did the US disrupt politics in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, and five or six other countries with the same fake news, social media games, etc?

In my humble opinion....I think the US is simply getting a dose of it’s own medicine, and it’ll continue until the social media folks are told to back off.


2 posted on 06/18/2017 5:04:38 AM PDT by pepsionice
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——Did the US disrupt politics in——

Russia?


3 posted on 06/18/2017 5:13:06 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: pepsionice

Excellent point


4 posted on 06/18/2017 5:16:26 AM PDT by Kaslin (The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triump. Thomas Paine)
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As f the traitorous communist democrats would be working any fewer hours to destroy the US absent any fake Russian anything.

I wouldn’t give Vlad and Co too much credit.


5 posted on 06/18/2017 5:16:58 AM PDT by GeneralisimoFranciscoFranco (I love liberals. They taste like chicken.)
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To: pepsionice

If the Russian intelligence services were not trying to influence American elections, they would not be doing their job. The disgrace is that the American media seems to see it as their job to act as volunteers for the Russian intelligence services.


6 posted on 06/18/2017 5:21:13 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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To: bert

>—Did the US disrupt politics in——

>Russia?

Bill Clinton and the state department helped rig Yeltsin’s 94 win. And he did such a bad job of it that Putin was able to use Intel on it to force Yeltin’s to resign in favor of Putin. Yes Bill Clinton rigging a Russian election gave the world putin.


7 posted on 06/18/2017 5:21:50 AM PDT by RedWulf
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Thank you for citing Putin's willing accomplices. We always knew the Democrats and the PRESS were the lowest of the lowest.
8 posted on 06/18/2017 5:33:02 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: Kaslin

Excellent !


9 posted on 06/18/2017 5:37:01 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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And I might add...who says that the Russian meddling didn’t start in 2000 with Bush, and 2008 with Obama?

One could use the stupidity of the news media to talk over this meddling thing being well over 20 years in the making and that the lack of investigative report is so low....with biased reporting so wide-spread....that there is no way of stopping it now.

Heck, maybe Madonna and Lady GaGa are KGB-creations.


10 posted on 06/18/2017 5:40:33 AM PDT by pepsionice
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Washington is ass-clowning itself with this ridiculous MSM propaganda and show trial

My respect for government has dropped to zero


11 posted on 06/18/2017 5:42:51 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: pepsionice

We constantly manipulate foreign elections. If we had any shame it would be a national embarrassment.
But no, we weren’t paid back for all of that.

The entire “Russia” story is fake and had one purpose. It is a cover story to “explain” why our intelligence community and FBI was spying on and working to undermine Hillary’s opponent. Without Russia, they were traitors, usurpers, and criminals.

Russia is how they say they were engaged in normal foreign spying and happened upon the Trump campaign interacting, so they HAD to report it. The truth is that Russia never happened, and they released a fake dossier or Russian prostitutes, accusations that Russia was behind wikileaks etc.


12 posted on 06/18/2017 5:48:25 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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Actually, no one has yet to suggest Russian hookers tied into this whole campaign episode....which is surprising that CNN or NBC can’t find some idiot to suggest Russian hookers flown into Baltimore and part of some attempt to sway young innocent Jared.

I’m waiting for the fake story where 300 Russian hookers were flown into the US and helped to sway voters throughout Ohio to vote for Trump.


13 posted on 06/18/2017 6:02:04 AM PDT by pepsionice
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Survey is back: Russians decided we are such a mess they don’t want us anymore. They figure we will implode soon and not longer b ea threat to anyone. That they already have enough snowflakes. That the libs are so brain damaged re-education camps would be a waste of resources.


14 posted on 06/18/2017 6:12:30 AM PDT by oldasrocks (rump)
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15 posted on 06/18/2017 6:36:08 AM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: Kaslin
Yet as a side effect you disrupt the state of your competitor’s new government to an extent you could never ever contemplate.

Yes, the Democrats are doing the work that Russia could only dream about.

If Russia actually tried to change the election, it's completely absurd that they would prefer President Trump to Mrs. Bill Clinton, since they have overwhelming and first-hand evidence that she committed gross negligence in handling secret and top-secret information.

16 posted on 06/18/2017 6:48:56 AM PDT by libertylover (In 2016 small-town America got tired of being governed by people who don't know a boy from a girl.)
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To: Kaslin
One of the biggest reveals of the Comey testimony is the Obama Administration’s complicity in a cover-up and coordination with the Clinton campaign. Attorney General Loretta Lynch not only lied about her meeting with Former President Clinton on the tarmac, she specifically directed Comey to lie about the activities of the FBI by mischaracterizing the nature of the investigation.

Someone should pass this interesting bit of information to Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Maybe he could break away from chasing pot smokers in Colorado to look into it, --unless he's still hiding under a table somewhere after Kamala Harris yelled at him.

17 posted on 06/18/2017 6:55:32 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: pepsionice

Did you miss the story where supposedly Trump went to Moscow, managed to get the same room Obama was in, hired Russian hookers to piss on him and the bed?

A British spy released that.

So Trump, the guy who dislikes handshakes because of germs germs, a clean freak on his plane, hired prostitutes to pee on him. /s


18 posted on 06/18/2017 7:02:05 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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I remember that story, but it came off so fake that I just laughed when I first heard this story.

The Brit spy episode....sounded to me more like a Mr Bean one-hour comedy special.


19 posted on 06/18/2017 7:07:54 AM PDT by pepsionice
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I think the US is simply getting a dose of it’s own medicine,

The Bolshekrats are pi$$ed at the Russkies because flexibility did not help them, so, they blame the Russkies for helping Trump.

20 posted on 06/18/2017 7:09:04 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '18.)
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