No evidence of actual vote tampering was ever presented.
There apparently was a small buy of very stupid ads run on Facebook. I saw them, they were ... stupid. I mean really “I don’t know the culture I’m trying to influence” stupid. Apparently run by a few Russians who were playing “big time international disruptor” and got caught money laundering (no apparent reason why they did that); obviously had no idea how to run effective ads.
Yes, Bloomberg pretty much proved the “you can buy an election” notion completely wrong. Money can get a message out, but if the message is inept then you can’t win.
They couldn’t as it was just a ruse to, well you all know the rest of the story:-(
I am sure Hillary Clinton has an answer. Probably in 2016 people buying and now people are selling?
Bloomberg spends HALF A BILLION on ads and wins one tiny primary, the Russians spent $1 MILLION on Facebook ads and they are supposed to have had enough influence to sway an entire election. The dems will believe that until their dying day, they are impervious to logic.
The Russians are just smarter and Bloomberg is a dunce?
Well, it wasn’t that the Russians bought so much advertising, it was that they hacked the DNC servers and dribbled out damaging information on Clinton via Wikileaks with encouragement from the Trump campaign.
I don’t think Bloomberg did that.
Russia, Russia, Russia. Putin must laugh his ass off.
Russia interferes with our elections. FACT! ??????
What exactly do they do? What evidence is there that actual votes were manipulated? (by Russia not the Democrats).
What elections did they win? PROOF?
I am so SICK of this FARCE!
Putin smart, Bloomberg dumb?
Democrats are worried sick that the Russians will trick them into voting for Donald Trump.
If the Russians were that good... able at swing elections with small brilliant Facebook ads (as democrats say) then Bloomberg and other democrats would have copied their ways. Or hired Russian consultants or had their friends in Academia write papers on the brilliance and sublimity of the ads.
They did not.
The press was also careful to NEVER show Americans what these ‘magical Russian ads’ looked like. Why? Take a guess...
Short answer - Russia could not, and Russian did not buy the 2016 election result.
And that is not the whole story.
The combined media and social media efforts in 2016 of
(a) the main presidential campaigns, and
(b) political action committees favorable to them, and
(c) their respective party national committees, and
(d) the thousands of political nominees who referenced their party’s POTUS candidate in a promotional way, and
(e) the regular media and their obvious in kind political contributions to their favored candidate via their “reports” and commentary, and
(f) the individual efforts of millions of Americans, and
(g) all of the above spread as it was across the “social media”
WAS MASSIVE compared to the operations of the Russians.
Compared to all the homegrown U.S. efforts, the Russians were pikers.
But the Democrats building a mountain out of molehill proved to be THE DECISIVE factor in U.S. national hyper divisions AFTER the election. They, the Democrats achieved - post election, what Putin could not - national disunity.
Extremely good point!!
I’ve been laughing my butt off about this saying things like “those Russians sure are clever. They managed to tip the 2016 by spending $100,000 on Facebook ads while Bloomberg couldn’t do it spending over $500,000,000.”
Bloomberg didn’t spend the right $100K on Facebook ads. Instead he spent $500 million on the wrong ads.
He chose poorly.