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« Reply #75 on: December 12, 2016, 01:39:42 PM »


Really? You trust the Infowars over the CIA? Good to know you're crazy.

They were more accurate in their Election coverage than the establishment media was
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« Reply #76 on: December 12, 2016, 01:42:09 PM »


They were more accurate in their Election coverage than the establishment media was

well, to be fair, they were kind of part of the winning campaign. :-)

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« Reply #77 on: December 12, 2016, 04:24:22 PM »
« Edited: December 12, 2016, 04:34:22 PM by Nym90 »

Trump should just support the intelligence conclusion, and say that he had nothing to do with it. After all, it's not his fault that a foreign power decided to intervene to support him. Then, he can put to rest any concerns by adopting a hawkish stance towards Russia, and imposing new sanctions on them. This kills many birds with one stone. A foreign power's attempt to influence our election will have backfired, thus dissuading similar attacks in the future. Trump will kill any notion that the Russians have any information or other ties to blackmail him with. And he will have proven that he puts America First. If he doesn't, he's just feeding into the Democrats' suspicions otherwise.

The alleged RNC hack looks especially bad, because if the Russians are sitting on that info, they can blackmail Trump if there's anything embarrassing in there. Trump must ascertain what they have ASAP, and then release the information as soon as possible, so it's all out there well before the next election, when whatever is there will have faded into the background.

Of course, but then he'd have to admit that he didn't win all by himself, and psychologically he can't do that.

That's why this is such a dangerous problem for our country, because Trump will be willfully in denial about Russia's role so long as it doesn't fit his narrative of he and he alone as a "winner". His need for self validation is more important than the good of the country.

Same thing with Priebus, he denies that the RNC was hacked because to him it would make the RNC chairman look bad to admit that they got hacked during his tenure. At the time that the revelations that the DNC was hacked came out, Priebus was on TV gloating that such a thing would never happen to the RNC because they had better security.

So he's backed himself into the same corner as Trump, he can't bring himself to admit failure which therefore puts the country's security at risk.
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« Reply #78 on: December 12, 2016, 05:03:56 PM »

I'm so cynical that I'm wondering if Republicans are only paying attention to this now not to stop his innauguration, but so they can have Pence sometime after 1/20.
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« Reply #79 on: December 12, 2016, 06:48:18 PM »

I'm so cynical that I'm wondering if Republicans are only paying attention to this now not to stop his innauguration, but so they can have Pence sometime after 1/20.

Like I've said before, President-elect Pussygrabber has already given them enough grounds to impeach him whenever they want. One more wouldn't certainly wouldn't hurt. And if they can get him for treason, they can have him killed so he can't make a fuss after the fact.
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« Reply #80 on: December 12, 2016, 07:02:49 PM »


Really? You trust the Infowars over the CIA? Good to know you're crazy.
Trusting the CIA anymore than the National Enquirer or Infowars is crazy. Ever hear of this place called Iraq?

CIA's reports were manipulated by the Bush White House.
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« Reply #81 on: December 12, 2016, 08:08:27 PM »


They were more accurate in their Election coverage than the establishment media was

well, to be fair, they were kind of part of the winning campaign. :-)



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« Reply #82 on: December 12, 2016, 08:34:09 PM »

I'm so cynical that I'm wondering if Republicans are only paying attention to this now not to stop his innauguration, but so they can have Pence sometime after 1/20.

This has been my theory since, oh, July
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« Reply #83 on: December 13, 2016, 07:39:10 AM »

President Obama on Campaign Hacks: ‘Very Clear Relationships’ Between Team Trump and Russia
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« Reply #84 on: December 13, 2016, 07:52:51 AM »


Really? You trust the Infowars over the CIA? Good to know you're crazy.
Trusting the CIA anymore than the National Enquirer or Infowars is crazy. Ever hear of this place called Iraq?

CIA's reports were manipulated by the Bush White House.
If you know anything about history you will know that part of the CIA's job since the start has been producing propaganda with the purpose of influencing elections around the world. You think they would draw the line at US elections? I think not.

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« Reply #85 on: December 13, 2016, 07:55:21 AM »


Really? You trust the Infowars over the CIA? Good to know you're crazy.
Trusting the CIA anymore than the National Enquirer or Infowars is crazy. Ever hear of this place called Iraq?

CIA's reports were manipulated by the Bush White House.
If you know anything about history you will know that part of the CIA's job since the start has been producing propaganda with the purpose of influencing elections around the world. You think they would draw the line at US elections? I think not.



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« Reply #86 on: December 13, 2016, 07:56:47 AM »

President Obama, on Campaign Hack s: ‘Very Clear Relationships’ Between Team Trump and Russia
Just made some corrections to that headline.
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« Reply #87 on: December 13, 2016, 08:05:45 AM »


Really? You trust the Infowars over the CIA? Good to know you're crazy.
Trusting the CIA anymore than the National Enquirer or Infowars is crazy. Ever hear of this place called Iraq?

CIA's reports were manipulated by the Bush White House.
If you know anything about history you will know that part of the CIA's job since the start has been producing propaganda with the purpose of influencing elections around the world. You think they would draw the line at US elections? I think not.



hahahahaaaaaa
Well on the one hand you have Julian Assange of Wikileaks saying that the source of his leaks was not Russia. On the other hand you have anonymous CIA sources telling Washington Post journalists that it was.

Wikileaks has had a perfect 10 record of publishing material that turned out to be authentic.

The CIA has deception and spreading propaganda as part of its job desciption.

WaPo is a hack news organisation that has a far from 10 perfect record and has already published a whole series of dubious partisan propaganda this election season.

Which do you think is the most credible source?
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« Reply #88 on: December 13, 2016, 08:13:34 AM »


Really? You trust the Infowars over the CIA? Good to know you're crazy.
Trusting the CIA anymore than the National Enquirer or Infowars is crazy. Ever hear of this place called Iraq?

CIA's reports were manipulated by the Bush White House.
If you know anything about history you will know that part of the CIA's job since the start has been producing propaganda with the purpose of influencing elections around the world. You think they would draw the line at US elections? I think not.



hahahahaaaaaa
Well on the one hand you have Julian Assange of Wikileaks saying that the source of his leaks was not Russia. On the other hand you have anonymous CIA sources telling Washington Post journalists that it was.

Wikileaks has had a perfect 10 record of publishing material that turned out to be authentic.

The CIA has deception and spreading propaganda as part of its job desciption.

WaPo is a hack news organisation that has a far from 10 perfect record and has already published a whole series of dubious partisan propaganda this election season.

Which do you think is the most credible source?
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« Reply #89 on: December 13, 2016, 08:24:41 AM »


Really? You trust the Infowars over the CIA? Good to know you're crazy.
Trusting the CIA anymore than the National Enquirer or Infowars is crazy. Ever hear of this place called Iraq?

CIA's reports were manipulated by the Bush White House.
If you know anything about history you will know that part of the CIA's job since the start has been producing propaganda with the purpose of influencing elections around the world. You think they would draw the line at US elections? I think not.



hahahahaaaaaa
Well on the one hand you have Julian Assange of Wikileaks saying that the source of his leaks was not Russia. On the other hand you have anonymous CIA sources telling Washington Post journalists that it was.

Wikileaks has had a perfect 10 record of publishing material that turned out to be authentic.

The CIA has deception and spreading propaganda as part of its job desciption.

WaPo is a hack news organisation that has a far from 10 perfect record and has already published a whole series of dubious partisan propaganda this election season.

Which do you think is the most credible source?
hahahahaaaaaa
You smoking too much?
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« Reply #90 on: December 13, 2016, 09:02:15 AM »


Really? You trust the Infowars over the CIA? Good to know you're crazy.

They were more accurate in their Election coverage than the establishment media was

The model of the future in election reporting.
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