Posted on 12/14/2016 1:12:29 PM PST by dirtboy
If you are not already apoplectic that Russian hackers, according to the CIA, meddled in the recent presidential campaign to game the system in Donald Trumps favor, then consider what impossibly steep recompense Vladimir Putin will demand for making Trump the most powerful person in the world.
Of course, Trump thinks hes all-powerful because his flimsy ego, which is more suited for poorly attended victory tour stops than daily intelligence briefings, simply cant entertain an alternate narrative. Hes also busy stacking his Cabinet with Putin-approved appointees, like secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobils chief executive. Trump is too vain to recognize that hes nothing more than a Kremlin chew toy, an easily manipulated means to Putins nefarious ends.
Its gut-check time in America.
During the campaign, American intelligence officials told the White House that they had high confidence that the Russian government was responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committees computer servers. Somehow, the likely fact that a foreign country, one with whom the United States has a historically adversarial relationship, was messing with our electoral process was treated like a bad subplot in a drawn-out melodrama. Even after Trump said last July, Russia, if youre listening, I hope youre able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing, in a reference to Hillary Clintons deleted e-mails, the story found no traction. In retrospect, its as if Trump was flaunting his shadowy connections.
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These people are just too funny ... what they won’t believe!!!
TDS will make BDS look like the common cold.
Barack Obama’s Master in Tehran.
Ha, this is an easy game to play.
“Uh...Renee. Other than hearsay, what evidence are you bringing to the table to support your claim. “
Evidence?
Liberals don’ need no stinkin’ EVIDENCE!
If true...they deserve a medal.
I suspect this is another case of affirmative Action on display. I’d like to think that, because I’m trying to avoid the idea she’s just that plain stupid without that being the cause.
So today we find out that the Russian hackers that sent the info to Wikileaks got Podesta’s email credentials when he replied to a a phishing email to reset his Google account. What I don’t understand about this is, if the Russians were trying to influence the 2016 election why did they also send scads of these phishing scam emails to me and several of the people I know that don’t have anything to do with politics? It would make more sense for the Russians to use a spear phishing attack against Democratic or DNC officials that would have a good probability of emailing something scandalous. The whole story makes no sense!
Failed enterprise is going to really have it bad when it loses more readers
Poorly attended?
Right. Merry Christmas!
Yes indeed, I remember clearly all of the times when Renée Graham castigated Obama for skipping intelligence briefings in preference for spending (wasting) even more time on the golf course.
Oh, wait a moment, I don't remember that, because it didn't happen.
Renée Graham is just a predictably foolish demagogue. Yawn.
“Uh...Renee. Other than hearsay, what evidence are you bringing to the table to support your claim. “
Her black racism. These racists need to be sent to Africa since they think al whites are racists and the enemy.
Turns out it was all the fault of Hillary's IT Helpdesk pajama boy, Charles Delavan.
Delavan was consulted about the phishing email, and he replied that it was legitimate.
He looks like a friend of Brother Maynard ...
You can bet she laughed along with the other Dims at Romney’s assessment of Russia just 4 years ago.
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