Posted: 09/13/17 01:26
by Dave Mindeman
Well, I am convinced.
Trump and his campaign colluded with the Russians to steal the election. The evidence is there, it just has to filter through all the lies and deception.
But it is real.
Not only did this campaign collude, but each and every one of his campaign members agreed to keep their Russian contacts secret and lie about it if necessary.
The list gets long...Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner, Donald Jr, Kellyanne Conway, Michael Flynn were the inner circle; while Mike Pence, Devin Nunes, Hope Hicks, and Sean Spicer were the second tier who were told later.
But this is all Trump. He has been courting Russian connections for a long time. The facts about his near deal for a Trump Tower in Moscow in 2015 (which he denied directly) while the campaign was gearing up was the reason that Trump could not say one bad thing about Vladimir Putin - Trump was trying to cajole a deal that he needed Putin to approve.
I don't know how much detail Robert Muller has uncovered or how much more he needs, but this is a much bigger conspiracy than anything ever cooked up by the alt-right. And this one is real.
And the lengths to which the Russian covert machine went to make this happen are becoming extraordinary as they come to light. The fake news, the facebook ads, the facebook pages, the rally organizing...it gets worse and worse.
Republicans still ignore the facts. They still want it to just go away. But this kind of election tampering will continue unabated until it is confronted. And now, more than ever, we need to stand up to a President who was willing to plot with a foreign adversary just for the sake of winning.
This national nightmare needs to end.
The Eastern EU is filled with cottage industries of people siting at their computer an liking books, giving reviews to products they never owned, used, or even seen before. Clicking on survey monkey links. And they are quite good at it. Just look at how Dave's comments board lights up with gibberish. Ditto for newspaper comments areas. It's shameful how respectable newspapers will allow bots in to inflame debates. I recently witnessed it on the USA Today "Livestream" of one of the statues coming down. Bots got in there and started posting outrageously ridiculous postings in the comments area--clearly written by people who were struggling with english as a second language--they read like an assembly manual for an ikea item made in china--hilarious.
There are Bot people claiming they manage and control the identities of hundreds of thousands people imposters and promise to make your book look good with 5 stars on Amazon, or Likes on facebook, or (my favorite) click on and watch ads to secure traffic fees for your website's click-thru revenue stream. Each and every one of these methods can and are being used in an attempt to influence public opinion.
This whole notion of monitoring your web activity and feeding content to your door is nothing short of tragic. Imagine the horror of a young teenage girl who is foolish enough to ask Google about committing suicide. Then the monsters at Google start channeling more and more content right to her door. It should be criminal!