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Russia "meddling" in US election WTF does that even mean?

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    Can somebody please shed some light on what the Dems, MSM and just about every talking head in media mean when they say Russia tried to "interfere" with the 2016 US election. They use two main words "meddling" and "interfering", but what exactly did Russia do or try to do? Did they actually try to hack into the voting machines and actually change votes? Did they try to use social media to influence opinion? I am clueless has to what exactly Russia did or didn't do. If Russia actually tried to hack in and change votes that is unacceptable of course, but if it's just using social media to influence opinion then I think its a big joke I don't care and I don't see the big deal. Hillary Clinton is as crooked as a mountain road and she didn't need Russia to point that out for her. I just don't get all this "Russia meddling / interfering" bullshit.
     
    here is what it means. when they parse words under oath you gotta dig a bit more.

     
    And google comes defaulted on just about every Internet browsing piece of hardware one can buy.

    Screw the russian (edit) government too. Screw all y'all in bed mofo's.

    We see you.




     
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    John Podesta or one of his aides allowed Russian hackers access to his computer by clicking on some bait in an e-mail. The hackers got into his e-mail and exposed the Democrats' campaign corruption including how they crushed the elderly commie to push Hillary. It's believed by many that this is how wikileaks eventually got their info, but some think that Seth Rich was the leaker there. That is very probable given his "mysterious" murder outside his apartment and Hillary's bodycounter ticking up by one.
    Bottom line-Democrats are mad because they lost and because their treasonous shenanigans were exposed. The only "hacking" done by Russians was into Democrat e-mails.
     
    The USA has been screwing around in the elections of other countries ever since I can remember...central and South America, Asia, and any where else they think they can affect elections to get some "pro American" candidate elected, the USA has had their fingers in the elections of other countries. Now that some other country is probably doing the same thing to us, we cry "foul" and howl about what a horrible thing it is for Russia to try and have some affect on our elections. The irony is lost on most folks.
     
    They been doing the same to us for a long time. The parties know this and use it as a source of funding through domestic front men. Chine Russia, Europe, UK are the worst offenders, Israel too but they play both sides pretty even. the problem is not the foreigners but the two parties and the individual criminals in these parties.
     
    Matt Taibbi’s 2015, Rolling Stone article about the Russian Troll Farms remains more concrete evidence of what happened than anything else. It’s all been confirmed electronically, but other than this it’s all innuendo and leftist talking points.
     
    I don't care if Russia or any other country tries to persuade public opinion of any candidate one way or another like said above I am sure we have been doing that for a very long time. Only thing that would be unacceptable IMO would be if votes can some how be changed. Exposing the truth about any candidate will always be a good thing no matter how it's done. I trust our own government as far as I can throw a tank.
     
    It means Putin woke up one day and asked who is going to win the election?

    Governments in glass house had better be careful when they throw stones.

    Ask Israel how much they appreciated Obama sending his election committee over to unseat Netanyahu.

    Great job we did in the Ukraine screwing with their politics.

    Obama ever answer up for bugging Merkel?

    Don't claim to be a virgin if your on your bakers dozen abortion.
     
    here is what it means. when they parse words under oath you gotta dig a bit more.



    Ted Kennedy writing a letter to Yuri Andropov at the height of the Cold War trying to create an alliance to defeat Reagan is reason to dig his moldering ass up and quarter his corrupt remains for scattering amongst the corners of the world.

    Well one of many reasons but one of the top ones.
     
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    it is pretty funny.

    on one side, you have obama, mcstain, clinton, running guns in 2011 to sunni extremists in syria, who would hand those weapons to what would become the isis caliphate in syria.
    and then kerry and brennan start a multi billion dollar program arming and training "rebels", but when all the "rebels" join isis, al nusra front and other terrorists we have armed, obama has to send our troops to fight the rebels.

    ....all to remove assad from power
    over 500,000 dead, countless christians raped and murdered by terrorists obama and company armed and supported...
    assad is of course still in power...

    on the other side, you (allegedly) have a dozen or so "russians" that payed a few thousand dollars to fakebook for some ads?

    now tell me again who the bad guys were?
     
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    I never understood the hysteria. I don't think there's many elections world wide that the US government does not try to influence. Not to mention all tHe governments we've straight up toppled. The Russians put out a couple of Facebook ads and it's like the whole tradition of democracy is ruined. A bunch of flipping cry babies. Dish it out but can't take it.
     
    But we are the "good" guys,,,,hehehehhhehe

    Dont fool yourself, the CIA, KGB (whatever) MI6 etc all work together to put the people of each country down, our own CIA was working with Russia on behalf of Clinton to get that cunt elected, the FBI as well was working with many many foreign services to get the cunt elected, they like milking the citizenry of each country. Kind of like playing the race card in this country except n a global scale. Our biggest threat and most dangerous enemy resides in the 5 counties around DC.
     
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    They been doing the same to us for a long time. The parties know this and use it as a source of funding through domestic front men. Chine Russia, Europe, UK are the worst offenders, Israel too but they play both sides pretty even. the problem is not the foreigners but the two parties and the individual criminals in these parties.

    While the above is all true, the last part about "the problem is not the foreigners but the two parties and the individual criminals in these parties" might seem very obvious to many of us here, but seems to be largely overlooked by the electorate (the citizens who vote) here in the USA.

    I want to say that if the electorate in the USA would only wake up, many of our problems could be solved. What really causes me to stop and think again how to solve the issues from which we suffer, is the possibility that the electorate is already really AWAKE, AWARE, AND BEING DELIBERATE about how they cast their votes.

    Thinking that the electorate really is awake, aware and being deliberate with how they cast their votes is even more frightening than thinking that they are just ignorant and stupid, with a "consequences be damned" attitude.
     
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    Matt Taibbi’s 2015, Rolling Stone article about the Russian Troll Farms remains more concrete evidence of what happened than anything else. It’s all been confirmed electronically, but other than this it’s all innuendo and leftist talking points.

    A grain of sand compared to Google answering every single query according to its political agenda.
     
    I agree, but the ONLY actual indictments, and the ONLY actual EVIDENCE of Russian disinformation/confusion campaigns comes from the Russian Troll Farm case/story that was broken by Rolling Stone. Rush was on Fox this morning and played a sound byte of Obama dismissing the "Russian Interference" THREE WEEKS BEFORE THE ELECTION! He was dismissing it because he had been using the FBI and CIA to spy on the Trump Campaign since 2016, and he was 100% certain that Hillary was going to get elected, and he did not want anyone on the right accusing the Democrats of election tampering. Then the world exploded and the impossible happened, and the whole "Trump Russia Collusion" narrative was implemented to cover up all crimes that preceded the election.

    It has worked. Here we are three years later, and the criminals still haven't been pilloried in the press or arrested and prosecuted.
     
    Russian meddling;


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    The USA has been screwing around in the elections of other countries ever since I can remember...central and South America, Asia, and any where else they think they can affect elections to get some "pro American" candidate elected, the USA has had their fingers in the elections of other countries. Now that some other country is probably doing the same thing to us, we cry "foul" and howl about what a horrible thing it is for Russia to try and have some affect on our elections. The irony is lost on most folks.
    Yes i believe the U.S has been meddling with with other country's election process and result, But do not be deceived it is impossible for Russia to do the same thing to us. Money is one of the most powerful tool in an election. Beside funding an American candidate, there's nothing else Russia can do. they can answer question for the candidate or teach him/her common sense and how to defuse crisis or all ingredient a president must have. There's no way Russia can manipulate the U.S election....
     
    Yes i believe the U.S has been meddling with with other country's election process and result, But do not be deceived it is impossible for Russia to do the same thing to us. Money is one of the most powerful tool in an election. Beside funding an American candidate, there's nothing else Russia can do. they can answer question for the candidate or teach him/her common sense and how to defuse crisis or all ingredient a president must have. There's no way Russia can manipulate the U.S election....

    If they can hack the pentagon, they can hack a secretary of state office.
     
    No matter who is behind all of this crap, all the finger pointing , hearings hating the President, trying to make something that it was not. One fact is clear, it happened on Obama's watch. Nobody did or said anything! I think Hillary was all in on it and bleached as much evidence as she could to end the trail to her. Wouldn't be surprised if it would lead to our last administration. What I come to figure since the election of Donald Trump is when some one is doing, accusing or calling out for wrong doings, they are the ones doing the shit that they are blaming on other folks! :mad:
     
    Almost ANY country with enough money or access to intelligence could manipulate the election of another country. Sometimes they just have to be lucky rather than good. It is also possible that another country could be hoping to manipulate another country's election results to outcome "A", but that would fail, and they would end up with unforeseen and unplanned outcome "B". While "B" may not be the hoped for outcome, it would still be manipulation of the election. The country manipulating the election could even have things backfire and they would end up with an outcome that is detrimental to their hoped for result.

    I see election results as similar to a prize fight. While one fighter may have a far better record, and be far better trained, the underdog can still get in a lucky punch and end up the winner. The same theory applies to election results.

    The USA electorate has a famously short memory and are by and large idiots. Most young voters still think that if Trump is impeached, he will automatically be removed from office and someone will replace him. My point is that few know how the system truly works.
     
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    This is a true story from 1996, when I was helping some Russian delegation of two (2) to travel to Atlanta for a trade show. We entered the local bar, and of the Russians walked to the bartender (who looked like the proven U.S. citizen to me) and said to him - "Give me please six doubles of vodka in one glass". Looking at the bartender, I could clearly see that the state of the mind of this U.S. citizen (and I assumed he was also a voter) changed instantly with no possibility of getting back to normal.

    I can only imagine what these 13 russians, whom Mueller picked up to accuse of messing with America, can do to the voters who happen to work in various drinking establishments. I also think number "13" is very telling, as Mueler is likely a big fan of 1967 "Dirty Dozen". Otherwise, I see no reason why this number is exactly 13 and not a lot bigger to better match 300+ million people living in the U.S.
     
    Ted Kennedy writing a letter to Yuri Andropov at the height of the Cold War trying to create an alliance to defeat Reagan is reason to dig his moldering ass up and quarter his corrupt remains for scattering amongst the corners of the world.

    Well one of many reasons but one of the top ones.

    I love that idea. However, right now his fat body is polluting only one spot of our precious earth. If we quarter him, he'll just pollute more of the planet.
    Decisions, decisions...
     
    This is a true story from 1996, when I was helping some Russian delegation of two (2) to travel to Atlanta for a trade show. We entered the local bar, and of the Russians walked to the bartender (who looked like the proven U.S. citizen to me) and said to him - "Give me please six doubles of vodka in one glass". Looking at the bartender, I could clearly see that the state of the mind of this U.S. citizen (and I assumed he was also a voter) changed instantly with no possibility of getting back to normal.

    I can only imagine what these 13 russians, whom Mueller picked up to accuse of messing with America, can do to the voters who happen to work in various drinking establishments. I also think number "13" is very telling, as Mueler is likely a big fan of 1967 "Dirty Dozen". Otherwise, I see no reason why this number is exactly 13 and not a lot bigger to better match 300+ million people living in the U.S.
     
    The us goverment does not like it when other countries mess with there elections , but like so many other missing news articles there is no mention of how many times the us goverment has done the exact same thing to probabily ever other country on the planet . Got to love the crying " they metaled in our elections" . and still no charges for dims that paid them . or rips that paid them that infromation must stay hidden and classified ..
     
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    The us goverment does not like it when other countries mess with there elections , but like so many other missing news articles there is no mention of how many times the us goverment has done the exact same thing to probabily ever other country on the planet . Got to love the crying " they metaled in our elections" . and still no charges for dims that paid them . or rips that paid them that infromation must stay hidden and classified ..
    they justified arming terrorists to overthrow the legally elected government of syria, because they whooped on some teenager.

    suspiciously missing from this rationalization for 1/2 million dead syrians is any mention of entire communities of americans burned alive in their home by our own government.
     
    Can somebody please shed some light on what the Dems, MSM and just about every talking head in media mean when they say Russia tried to "interfere" with the 2016 US election. They use two main words "meddling" and "interfering", but what exactly did Russia do or try to do? Did they actually try to hack into the voting machines and actually change votes? Did they try to use social media to influence opinion? I am clueless has to what exactly Russia did or didn't do. If Russia actually tried to hack in and change votes that is unacceptable of course, but if it's just using social media to influence opinion then I think its a big joke I don't care and I don't see the big deal. Hillary Clinton is as crooked as a mountain road and she didn't need Russia to point that out for her. I just don't get all this "Russia meddling / interfering" bullshit.
    still haven't seen their 'evidence'. libs are more guilty of interfering by flooding the country with illegal voters.
     
    You mean like the Obama administration overtly interferes in the Israeli elections and spent millions of our tax dollars to defeat Netanyahu?

    That kind of interfering!

    Just wondering why we expect the Rooskies to not do what we did first?

    Cheers, Sirhr

    This is exactly the point that Trump should be saying! The blind average person has the " we would never do anything like that" attitude.
     
    If Putin released all of Hillary's emails to interfere with our election so be it. If Russia has all the dirt on Hillary then We The People should be made aware of it. If the politician is clean then they have nothing to worry about even though that's impossible to be clean in our corrupt system. I still use Russian Dressing on my salad , could Bob Mueller indict me ?