Did everyone forget the groupthink-bound avalanche of
stories about Saddam’s stockpile of WMDs that helped usher in the ongoing
series of unfortunate events (aka clusterfucks, catastrophes) in Southwest Asia
and North Africa?
Remember how the Clinton camp, which includes the DNC, blaimed
Russia for hacking Podesta’s emails that came out in the Wikileaks releases and
how the FBI officially reported that no such evidence had been found?
I’ve watched the growing hysteria over Russia’s alleged
hacking of the elections since the seed from which the story sprang was first
planted. Here is the sequence of events
in this latest viral political fake news story as I've watched it unfold the
past couple of weeks:
1) Wikileaks posts thousands of emails from the accounts of
Dem operative John Podesta and the DNC proving beyond a reasonable doubt
collusion between the DNC and the Clinton campaign during the primary,
collusion between the DNC and the Clinton campaign with nearly every outlet in
the mainstream media, including the focus on Trump which they nearly
universally adopted because it was thought he would be easiest for their sorry
candidate to beat.
2) Podesta and the Clintons cry foul, claim that Russians
hacked the emails and was the source of the leaks to Wikileaks.
3) FBI announces there is no evidence whatsoever to prove
the claims and that while Russia is undoubtedly laughing its collective ass
off, it had nothing to do with it.
4) In the aftermath of the eminently forseeable defeat of
the piss-poor Dem establishment candidate in the presidential election, Clinton
ally John Podesta comments that Russians may have hacked the election.
5) Outlets tied to Podesta make the same suggestion.
6) Her Royal Catastrophe claims that the election was
hacked.
7) POTUS says he is going to look into claims that Russians
hacked the election.
8) WaPo almost immediately produces a story claiming with no
verifiable sources that a "secret report" by CIA proves that Russia
hacked the election.
9) Without pausing to consider WaPo's track record,
especially recently, new outlets worldwide regurgitate this misinformation like
they did claims of WMDs in Iraq.
Does Russia have active online assets engaging in what used
to be called gray propaganda? You bet
your sweet ass, as I myself have pointed out and posted to Facebook verified
stories of on more than one occasion.
Have Russians hacked computer U.S. assets? Indubitably.
Did any Russians hack the electronic voting apparati to rig the
elections? No fucking way. Could they have? Yes, no doubt. But other than the claims of the Clinton camp
and the totally and completely unverified fake news from WaPo, there is no
evidence of any kind whatsoever that such a thing happened. Zero.
Zip. Nada. Fuck all.
Besides, rigging elections is the purview of the Clinton camp and the
Democratic National Committee.
Dems, please grow the fuck up. If you want to find out who is responsible,
you need only look in a mirror (I quote from one of the best political speeches
on film ever). And get your shit
together, and do it quickly. Like it or
not, Donald Trump is validly POTUS-elect, and the next four years could be
hell.
I am not one of you. I
left in the 1990s when Slick Willy and the Goldwater Girl took the Dems on a
hard right turn and changed it into the Republican-lite Party. However, if we are going to prevent a second
Trump term in 2020, you need to pull your heads out of your arses and do some
serious fucking soul-searching and self-criticism and get back to the social
democratic policies that made the DP the unquestioned majority party in the
country.
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