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Did Russia Hack Election?

Russia is a hostile regime whose intelligence operations — from cyber to propaganda to political assassination to promotion of rogue regimes and factions — are formidable. Many of us were warning against Putin while George Bush was gazing into his eyes for a “sense of his soul,” the Bush administration was imagining Russia as a “strategic partner,” Hillary Clinton was resetting our path to cozy relations, Barack Obama was appeasing Putin in desperation to keep the perilous Iran nuclear deal on track, and Donald Trump was “bromancing” the dictator. So if Democrats have suddenly decided the Kremlin is a malign force, we should welcome them and fight the urge to ask, “What took you so long?” Russia did not “hack our election.” But Russia is our “number-one geopolitical foe” — to quote Mitt Romney’s bull’s-eye assessment, the object of such media-Democrat scorn. Putin’s anti-American operations in the run-up to the election — which were directed, according to our intelligence agencies, against both political parties — should be a matter of serious concern to all Americans, as should Russian machinations in the Obama years, the Bush years, in Europe, the Middle East, and elsewhere. Yet, rather than encourage a responsible evaluation of what we’re up against, Democrats and their media allies are promoting a fraud: If you take the Russian threat seriously, it means Russia stole the election and, ergo, that Donald Trump is an illegitimate president. Since that is not what happened, Republicans — who should be pushing Trump toward a harder line against Moscow — will be constrained to refute the Democrats’ allegations. The Democrats will demonize Trump, while Trump sympathizers sound like Putin’s defense lawyers. In the Kremlin, they’ll be smiling.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/artic...residential-election-republicans-donald-trump
 
Apologies, Kenny. Didn't mean to high jack your thread and have no concerns about ownership.
Do I need to request a deletion? Not something I've ever done.
 
No problem, not a big deal.
I only brought it up since it's a hassle to follow two threads.

I just asked Ella whether she wants to combine them.
Whatev she decides is fine by me.
 
Kenny, I asked Ella to just delete my post if that's easier. But I'm not sure that I went to the correct place. It was the only "contact" I could find.
At least others will know not to post here in the meantime.
 
Maybe use "report" function? Will try that.
 
I always just link two similar threads. I place a link from each one into the other one so that people interested in the topic can find all the postings about the subject. it's not ideal, but it works. Do we really have to be so obsessive that we have only one thread?

Deb
 
Not important to me, Deb, so I don't mind accommodating.
Did I do right to use "report" function?
 
AnnaH said:
Not important to me, Deb, so I don't mind accommodating.
Did I do right to use "report" function?
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Absolutely!
 
Good. I learned something.
 
"Dwindling Odds of Coincidence" by Charles M.Blow

This article (an opinion piece) which skewers The Trump administration is the most depressing essay for thinking people that I have read in a while. After making a superb case for the increasing odds that there was collusion between The Trump campaign and the Russians, Blow concludes:

"Polls continue to find a strong appetite for the ultimate remedy: Trump’s impeachment. You would get no resistance from me if it ever came to that. But I also understand the order of succession and that, too, gives me pause.

It moves from the zealot Mike Pence, to the weasel Paul Ryan, to anti-abortion crusader Orrin Hatch, to Rex 'Russian Order of Friendship' Tillerson, to the former Hollywood producer Steven Mnuchin, who had to apologize last week for plugging 'The Lego Batman Movie,' for which he was an executive producer.

The list goes on and on."

Link...https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/...-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

AGBF
 
Deb, Hope you will post in Kenny's thread as this one will be deleted.
 
AnnaH said:
Deb, Hope you will post in Kenny's thread as this one will be deleted.
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I just copied my post into kenny's thread. Thank you for alerting me.

Deb :wavey:
 
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