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Informative article in Business Insider today:
'"Its not just writing Obama is a monkey and Putin is great. Theyll even fine you for that kind of [primitive] stuff," he told Dozhd. In fact, those who worked for the foreign desk were restricted from spreading pro-Russia propaganda. Rather, Max said, their job was more qualitative and was geared toward understanding the "nuances" of American politics to "rock the boat" on divisive issues like gun control and LGBT rights.
"Our goal wasnt to turn the Americans toward Russia," he added. "Our task was to set Americans against their own government: to provoke unrest and discontent, and to lower Obamas support ratings."'
No surprise, really, but more specific ... and turns out Americans (most of the right as well as many on the left) as a whole were dumb enough to fall for it.
http://www.businessinsider.com/former-troll-russia-disinformation-campaign-trump-2017-10?utm_content=buffer2293a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-bi
Freethinker65
(10,048 posts)California_Republic
(1,826 posts)calimary
(81,467 posts)Mainly because it worked very nicely FOR the GOP. So why should they want to rock the boat and do anything that questions the validity or casts doubt upon their win last November? Thats all they cared about: that it literally stole the White House for THEIR team.
Now if the Dems had kept the White House, the CONS would be raising holy hell about how horrendous and illegal and not valid the election results were. Theyd be climbing all over it, to the exclusion of all else. But since it benefited THEM, theyre gonna drag their feet on any vigorous attempts to get to the bottom of this.
Seriously, NOT ONE of these CONS actually wants to be investigating ANY of this. Not a single one. They managed to win. So thats all they care about. And what they really want is for the rest of us, including the news media, to shut up, drop it, and go away.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)Hekate
(90,793 posts)CrispyQ
(36,516 posts)Less than 2 minutes, but worth the watch. I shared it on FB.
Irish_Dem
(47,399 posts)czarjak
(11,289 posts)William Seger
(10,779 posts)bdamomma
(63,922 posts)to be all powerful again, with the US out of the way, he's going to be the next wanna be world dic.............tator.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Hes the attack dog of the Sino-Russian alliance. Hes doing the dirty work for China. Follow the money.
The main goal of SCO is the end of US hegemony.
Revenge is a dish best served cold
mopinko
(70,216 posts)i'm still trying to figure out how they smeared jimmy carter for having a brother who liked beer.
Hugin
(33,205 posts)Set up by Reagan et al. Oh, and the Iranians.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Trust repukes to figure out a way to outsource the VRWC.
lark
(23,156 posts)Anyone who writes -
Democrats didn't state what they are for
Democrats ran the wrong kind of ads
Americans don't want health care
Democrats don't reflect America's values
Democrats aren't pro-worker enough
Democrats don't care about rural people
are just stating Russian/repug talking points. The election was stolen, not lost. Russia and the Repug Oligarchy are the enemy, not progressivism. Americans by and large support progressive policies.
EXACTLY my thoughts, but I like the way you made bullet points of them.
Initech
(100,102 posts)You're either with America, or you're with Russia. That is a very simple and effective message we can all get behind!
PatSeg
(47,589 posts)Democrats to blame themselves. Right after the election, everyone was asking "What did the Democrats do wrong?" and blaming Hillary Clinton, because she ran a bad campaign. Can't blame republicans or the Trump campaign, because then they look like poor losers.
Hekate
(90,793 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,459 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Do you think they would still double down or would it sow some seeds of doubt? I don't think they would ever immediately renounce their positions, but nobody likes to feel like they have been played and if they knew that most of this was the work of a foreign government, do you think it would weaken their support of candidates like Trump?
IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)the white supremacists even marched with torches recently chanting "Russia is our friend".
They've published a lot of stuff on RW media in favor of partnering more closely with Russia
onetexan
(13,058 posts)that they've been had. We have a few trumpers in our neighborhood, some of them racist to the core and have called our Muslim neighbors Osama bin Ladens. Their ignorance is horrid and disgusting.
relayerbob
(6,555 posts)Their egos are at stake here, after all
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I think they are going to realize sooner or later that they were total patsies. I don't think they are really going to like that realization.
Wounded Bear
(58,709 posts)Have been since Reagan brought out his bullshit "10 most frightening words in the English language." Or was it nine?
Whatever. Repubs and Faux Noise have been undermining our government institution for decades. The Russians just piggy-backed on that.
maxrandb
(15,355 posts)has been doing that for 30 years now.
bdamomma
(63,922 posts)we could take down their source of stupid brainwashing news. What would trumpie do without them?
whathehell
(29,090 posts)and are reportedly quite disappointed in Trump.
CousinIT
(9,257 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)Seriously!
bluestarone
(17,030 posts)make 50% of the people fight the other 50% Boy did we fall for it hook line and sinker
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Call it a problem and say you are the only guy who can fix it, a con older than civilization.
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