Okay, just for the hell of it, let's try to define what the question "Did Russia Hack the Election?" actually
means.
If I have this right, I don't believe anyone is saying that Russia somehow got into voting booths or hacked into voting machines or computers or servers and changed votes from Hillary to Trump. If I'm wrong on that, if you believe that, please say so and provide whatever evidence you have.
I believe that what is being said is that the Russians "hacked" into Podesta's and other DNC people's email accounts via phishing and got oodles of seriously damning shit on the Democrats, spilled the beans, and here we are.
They are saying that an unfriendly foreign power found and used a method of influencing opinions on a major party presidential candidate, and it may have made enough of a difference in a close race. That's it, unless I'm missing something.
So, four reasonable questions:
- Was Podesta, was the DNC, an easy mark for this activity, did they screw up? Yeah, it appears so.
- Did the Russians try to hack the RNC too? Entirely possible, no one can say for sure either way.
- Could all the shit that came out from the hacked emails been the final straw against Clinton, particularly in those rust belt states where Trump barely beat her and gained critical electoral votes? Yeah, that seems like a reasonable possibility.
- And finally, if Trump had been the one whose party's emails were hacked and Hillary won critical electoral states by a hair, would his supporters be screaming right now? Of course.
So what is YOUR definition of "hacking"?
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Mac, I want to speak to your No. 4.
Let us all agree 1st that the Russians hacked the DNC for the sake of debate.
Now then, does everybody remember when Trump kept complaining that the election was rigged? That is EXACTLY why nobody did anything about the hacks, and kept insisting that the election was perfectly safe. You see, everybody including Obama, thought Hillary was going to win in a landslide. If these hacks were made into a big deal, then Trump supporters could point to the Russians as why they lost.
How you say!
Well, you know all these secret or phony baloney things that came out magically about him as the race started winding down; well there is the proof that Trump people needed.............or was the DNC going to admit that THEY pulled all of these dirty tricks, to show it really wasn't Russia?!?!?!?!?!?! Or, maybe it was Russia, and we just don't know it yet, but I doubt it-)
What we would have heard was the tax returns, Russia, the women, Russia, everything else was Russia helping the DNC! The left insisted on no excuses for their win, because they needed a mandate, so they were just going to ignore all of this since their person was going to win anyway.
It didn't work out as they expected, now did it!
And so now, they are using the exact same rhetoric Trump supporters would have used.
Finally, I would like to know what the WikiLeaks releases said badly as far as Clinton? I honestly do not remember; all I heard was about the DNC. Maybe I am wrong, but that is it. So then, if Clinton was not a party to the actions, we have seen for years on here, the left deflecting that she didn't do anything whenever other controversies arose. So, why is it different this time? She was ahead in the polls through the whole election as reported by the pollsters, and every Democrat on here as they laughed.
Want to know why ya got it wrong?
Because YOU were actually correct, but because of California and New York, but that doesn't translate into an EC victory. Your people miscounted where the votes were, not because you didn't have them, but because they didn't realize they were in the wrong places! I knew that Trump was going to win Florida easily last year in March unless a big scandal broke as I was there taking the temperature of the electorate for the primaries, and the general, and yet..........they kept saying Clinton had it in the bag. They had me convinced I WAS WRONG for almost 4months, lol. I started telling my wife, Hillary has this in the bag cause she has Florida. My wife asked me---->how did you miss the mark so badly? I had no clue, but the big pollsters said I did!
Anyway, this whole thing is politics at its finest by the Democrats. Doesn't mean Russia didn't do it, just means it is now important as their candidate lost.
In the end Mac, if it ends up magically not being the Russians, (which I doubt) look for ties to Israel who owed Obama/Clinton/Jarrett one. Now that makes far more sense to me, but this whole thing is not about sense, it is about politics, so I laugh as I read 50 threads suggesting the same thing, just worded slightly different. This thing is going to go on for as long as the Democrats can keep it going, which will certainly take from what the new President is attempting to do, which is exactly what they want anyway.