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So there is evidence the Russian Government paid hackers to hack Podesta's email?
I saw the hack that allowed the hackers to get access - it is the same type of hack tried daily - on millions of accounts. "no-reply@accounts.googlemail.com." The subject line warns, "Someone has your password" 'Click here to fix.' He did, and the rest is history. You believe the Russian Government sent him that email on Putin's orders? |
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Intereresting that it happened on the same day Putin got a ceasefire signed in Syria.
It honestly looks like Obama is jealous that Russia has succeeded where American failed. |
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no he doesn't he actually used the word "bigly" in tweets ...
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Intereresting that it happened on the same day Putin got a ceasefire signed in Syria.
It honestly looks like Obama is jealous that Russia has succeeded where American failed. It was also interesting how he said something about hoping relations will improve in the future with the new American administration. This is why the way Obama is acting right now seems kind of stupid. I see no reason why relations with Russia can't thaw. They will be the enemy if you keep publicly maintaining that they are the enemy. It's not going to help anyone. I truly believe that Trump winning has really messed up plans which were being made in the background regarding Russia. Something I really don't want to think about. I would have thought that in the coming decades it would be important for America, Russia, and China to try to cooperate, not increase hostilities. Nobody really wants that, because the consequences could be horrific. The last thing you want is for any of these countries to encourage an increasing atmosphere of paranoia and fear against each other and to instead calm down the rhetoric. |
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Like the EU trying to influence the vote in the referendum.
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I would have thought that in the coming decades it would be important for America, Russia, and China to try to cooperate, not increase hostilities. Nobody really wants that, because the consequences could be horrific. The last thing you want is for any of these countries to encourage an increasing atmosphere of paranoia and fear against each other and to instead calm down the rhetoric.
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Look, look over here, look, it's important. Nothing to see over there, look here.
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Like the EU trying to influence the vote in the referendum.
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Like the EU trying to influence the vote in the referendum.
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Or how the clinton campaign rigged the dnc elections to favour themselves and tried to rig the rnc election to favour a moderate.
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Or how the clinton campaign rigged the dnc elections to favour themselves and tried to rig the rnc election to favour a moderate.
especially when a moderate republican, if there is such a thing, would have destroyed Clinton in the GE |
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There's not really much to get outraged over. When all is said and done, the Russian hackers only exposed something that was actually happening. It's not like any of it was untrue.
How many delegates were ejected over the scandal of Russian atrocities in Aleppo? ..... Oh, hang on, there was no evidence for that either was there? |
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i dont agree with it but i can almost understand why someone could think the DNC favouring Clinton could be construed as "rigging" the democrat primaries but what possible influence could the clinton campaign have had over the RNC and the republican primaries ?
especially when a moderate republican, if there is such a thing, would have destroyed Clinton in the GE They also got the voting dates changed in many of the big Blue states that would directly favour clinton and let's not forget that whole debacle with the the head of the dnc I couldn't imagine rubio or bush beating her in a head to head tbf. Edit i think I got it the wrong way round they wanted to change the date of the rnc election so not to favour the moderate |
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Hardly for me to link you to the page on this silly kindle but take a look at the bbc homepage. There's a like to 12 things we learned from wikileaks. Notice I said tried to rig the rnc.
They also got the voting dates changed in many of the big Blue states that would directly favour clinton and let's not forget that whole debacle with the the head of the dnc and again i repeat why on earth would the clinton campaign have wanted a moderate republican to stand against, that just makes no sense. and the "whole debacle with the head of the DNC", which i assume you mean was the leaked question before one of the primary debates. do you really think that having prior knowledge of a question about lead poisoning on the water in Flint, Michigan was giving away a huge secret before a debate that was being held in Flint, Michigan specifically because of the scandal over lead poisoning in the water ? come on be realistic and actually think about the relevance and impact of the things you are throwing out rather than just blindly accept clickbait without context |
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the voting dates are agreed between both parties and at the time the dates were set sanders wasn't even a realistic candidate so how was that "rigging" ?
and again i repeat why on earth would the clinton campaign have wanted a moderate republican to stand against, that just makes no sense. and the "whole debacle with the head of the DNC", which i assume you mean was the leaked question before one of the primary debates. do you really think that having prior knowledge of a question about lead poisoning on the water in Flint, Michigan was giving away a huge secret before a debate that was being held in Flint, Michigan specifically because of the scandal over lead poisoning in the water ? come on be realistic and actually think about the relevance and impact of the things you are throwing out rather than just blindly accept clickbait without context They wanted the date changed to not favour a moderate. Also ended the email something along the lines of friends of the clintons will be remembered |
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I edited my post sorry. I only have use of one eye atm so hard to read.
They wanted the date changed to not favour a moderate. Also ended the email something along the lines of friends of the clintons will be remembered we are talking about an e-mail that was sent in 2014 before the campaigns had even started making a request about your preferred date is not rigging something, its asking for something you would like to have |
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just going to add one last thing on this topic tonight before i go and bang my head off a brick wall for a little while
this last exchange proves something i said earlier in the thread the amount of damage that can be done to a political campaign, especially in this era of clickbait, by throwing out lots of little trivialities that can be taken completely out of context, is being shown here. a simple request about the scheduling of a primary, made 2 years beforehand, before any of the candidates were even known on either side, before anyone could know the political climate would be at the time the primaries were being held and based on assumptions about what type of candidate might do well on Super Tuesday, immediately becomes evidence that the Clinton campaign rigged the primaries. sorry but if people cant see how flawed that thought process is then there is little to discuss. |
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just going to add one last thing on this topic tonight before i go and bang my head off a brick wall for a little while
this last exchange proves something i said earlier in the thread the amount of damage that can be done to a political campaign, especially in this era of clickbait, by throwing out lots of little trivialities that can be taken completely out of context, is being shown here. a simple request about the scheduling of a primary, made 2 years beforehand, before any of the candidates were even known on either side, before anyone could know the political climate would be at the time the primaries were being held and based on assumptions about what type of candidate might do well on Super Tuesday, immediately becomes evidence that the Clinton campaign rigged the primaries. sorry but if people cant see how flawed that thought process is then there is little to discuss. Dear me - what on earth is going on? The lunatics are taking over the asylum (world). I fear for the future of my kids and grandchildren. It's a world where the truth, compassion and decency stands no chance whatsoever up against liars, opportunists and rabble rousers. |
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Hard for me to link you to the page on this silly kindle but take a look at the bbc homepage. There's a like to 12 things we learned from wikileaks. Notice I said tried to rig the rnc.
They also got the voting dates changed in many of the big Blue states that would directly favour clinton and let's not forget that whole debacle with the the head of the dnc I couldn't imagine rubio or bush beating her in a head to head tbf. Edit i think I got it the wrong way round they wanted to change the date of the rnc election so not to favour the moderate When it was finally revealed to be Trump I suspect that they probably thought that they'd lucked out and all their Christmases had come at once. ![]() There's a reason why they exaggerated Trump and painted him as the devil incarnate. Because they'd already had the idea to fight a nasty campaign whoever the Republican candidate was going to be and make them out to be some sort of extremist nutcase. They probably had a bible bashing god fearing Republican in mind. Trump only became public enemy number one once he ran for president. |
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so what ?
we are talking about an e-mail that was sent in 2014 before the campaigns had even started making a request about your preferred date is not rigging something, its asking for something you would like to have That may not be illegal but it certainly has a whiff of corrupt ethics about it. And any collusion with the media where it appeared that there was quite an incestuous relationship between the DNC and some of the legacy media may not be literally 'fixing' the outcome, but it certainly would be using state media in a way we would normally condemn other countries for doing. |
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The world's biggest terrorists (Americans) bullying our close friends the Russians.
Where ever there's conflict in the world you know the Americans are not too far away. |
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Expelling a couple of diplomats. Obama has been way too nice with his foreign policy, one of the reasons why the nutcase Trump is now in charge.
It's the Americans own fault having such flimsy election system. |
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It's the Americans own fault having such flimsy election system.
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It's got nothing to do with the US election system - flimsy or not. No one has suggested that the actual voting has been hacked. It's all about hacking (such as the Hilary Clinton emails) to influence the result.
Because for one, they have to prove that Russia hacked them, and secondly they have to provide proof that there was an intent to interfere with the election. And on a third point they'd also have to demonstrate how they've measured how much of an effect it had on the election if it did at all. Because at the moment why should anyone trust what they've said so far when they originally claimed to the public that the emails were false or had been doctored? |
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Whatever proof they provide, if they ever do, it has to be compelling.
Because for one, they have to prove that Russia hacked them, and secondly they have to provide proof that there was an intent to interfere with the election. And on a third point they'd also have to demonstrate how they've measured how much of an effect it had on the election if it did at all. Because at the moment why should anyone trust what they've said so far when they originally claimed to the public that the emails were false or had been doctored? the relevant people in congress have already been briefed, both republican and democrat, and have supported the sanctions did anyone official ever claim the e-mails were false or doctored btw or is this just your imagination ? iirc they refused to verify that the e-mails were accurate due to the methods that had been used to obtain and release them but i cant remember any official statement that they were false, merely that taken out of context they didn't paint the whole picture happy to admit i am wrong if you can back that up tho |
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