It’s possible that the Democratic National Committee leaks were caused by Russian hackers–but given that the hack took place thanks to John Podesta clicking on a link in a phishing email, displaying all the technological savvy of someone’s aunt extremely excited by the new iPhone she thinks she’s won, it could have been anyone. The “leaked” CIA concerns over Russian meddling were quite clearly leaked deliberately by the CIA itself, an organization not exactly famed for its commitment to the truth; they’re the conclusions of an investigation that hasn’t even happened yet and on which there’s no consensus even among the gang of petty Caligulas that calls itself the intelligence community. Still, it’s possible. Countries sometimes try to exert influence in each other’s internal affairs; it’s part of great-power politics, and it’s been happening for a very long time. When Americans meddled in Russia’s elections, it was by securing victory for Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s very own Donald Trump, a man who had sent in tanks to shell his own parliament. Leaked cables suggest that Hillary Clinton’s own State Department interfered with the political process in Haiti by suppressing a rise in the minimum wage. And American involvement in the politics of Chile, Guatemala, Indonesia, and Iran was mostly through military coups, sponsored by none other than the CIA. There was no question of these countries repeating their elections; anyone the generals didn’t like was tortured to death. Next to the mountain of corpses produced by America’s history of fixing foreign elections, a few hacked emails are entirely insignificant.
If I were a republican elector the death threats and harassment would only reassure me in my mission to elect Trump. I’d put on a MAGA hat and shirt and head on down to the legislature.
Even the msm’s own polling showed that Hillary had nationwide problems with her ratings on honesty, trust and integrity. Between her admitted irresponsible circumvention of government e-mail protocols and the documented selling of access to the State Dept. through their foundation, she absolutely reeked of entitlement, elitism and corruption.
There is no one to blame for Hillary’s loss but Hillary herself.
I have not seen or heard one bit of proof in the whole of this wailing and gnashing of teeth. And even if the alphabet agencies, irs, fbi, cia, nsa, dnc, etc., had video with a time stamp, I would still be skeptical. We’ve been lied to for far too long.
Obama has so politicized the civil service, I suspect that they will be at war with Trump for the next 4 or 8 years just like they were at war with Harper for 10 years in Canada.
The American coups in places like Chile prevented the expansion of communism and saved lives. Hugo Chavez and Castro are good examples of what happened when America failed.
I would be … horrified … if the unhinged left DIDN’T behave this way. I like my enemies to behave predictably. And the left is sooooo predictable. In such a laughable way. I esp. love the story, this morning, of loony leftists sitting in the middle of the roadway … chained-together … in an effort to block the Electors from driving to the Harrisberg, PA capital to vote. Whether they are blocking a McDonalds beef delivery, or blocking Elector voting … it is all such fun theatre. The left makes me LOL. And the cast of “protestors” could not be more perfectly type-cast by the very BEST Hollywood Director. Overweight, gray-haired granny’s … and assorted smelly-looking wannabe hippies.
And I find it very amusing that the LEFT never figured out just how much damage they did to their “cause” and candidate by protesting Trump rallys by throwing eggs a Trump supporters, attacking and damaging their cars, waving Mexican flags. I believe the left is completely blind to the fact that THEY GOT TRUMP ELECTED. What a herd of amusingly suicidal lemmings … 🙂
The difference is Trump has experience dealing with problematic parties, like new york construction unions, that make the civil service look like pikers.
In 2014 Russia hacked the White House and State Department email systems and was exploiting them for weeks or months before a friendly foreign country notified the US. The WH system was down for about a month while the system was fixed. Obama and the media made little of it.
At least 5 countries gained access to Clinton’s server. Russia was no doubt one of them. If they wanted to hurt her campaign it would seem tat releasing those emails would have been a better way to do it then Podesta’s. And since we all know 5 countries had access to her emails we wouldn’t know which ones leaked the documents.
I have to conclude that the hack was by someone other than the Russian government or else that they had some other motive than destroy Clinton’s campaign.
I’m sure the Russians and Chinese are busy hacking everyone. However, I do suspect the leaks came from Bernie supporters.
Don’t forget the U.S. meddling in the Israeli election in an attempt to get rid of Netanyahu. And why is it always the big, nasty Russian bear? That’s just the Democrats trying to resurrect the Cold War so they can have an external enemy to point at.
“He’s a charlatan, a snake-oil salesman, peddling sleek gibberish to people ….”
The thing is, the author’s a charlatan himself, criticizing another charlatan. He’s disgusted that the left are acting like airheads, unlike the way they usually behave. Do none of these people remember that Obama won an election with the high-school slogan “Hope and Change”?
Ha ha ha … Hope … Change … and Fresh Kale for your children’s school cafeteria !!
A story a few days ago suggested that a disgruntled Clinton staffer leaked the emails. This fits in well with the murder of a Clinton campaign staffer (Seth ???) earlier this year. The motive at the time was said to be robbery yet the victim still had his valuables on him. And there have been other Clinton victims throughout the years.
And what seems to be missing in all the Russian hackery stories is WHAT they hacked. Had Podesta been on the up and up there would be nothing worth hacking about. Case in point-had Donna Brasille not e-mailed that she alerted Hillary about one of the debate questions there would be nothing worthwhile releasing.
Sore loosers-looks good on them.
I will anxiously await the first time Trump dumps a whole department that goes against him like Reagan did with the air traffic controllers.
Well now, they could have blamed the “vast right wing conspiracy”, but that would have even had some lefties rolling in the aisles laffing:-)))
You say that like it’s a good thing. The progressives are why Americans own nasty black rifles. When the trains start lining up to cart evangelicals to Nevada camps with “Re-education makes you progressive” over the entry points, progressives will learn #BlackRiflesMatter.
And of course after working us to death, we will be buried as a form of carbon sequestration.