Steve Breen for December 27, 2017

Trump Disciples believe that Russian hacking is an oxymoron — that it never happened and it’s not happening now.

You know, fake news. Like climate change, voter suppression, wealth inequality, tax cuts for the rich, and Obama being born in the United States.

Why, it’s enough to make you use paper ballots. Oh, yeah, we do that in California.

The Russians have hackers and the North Koreans may have chemical warfare bombs. And we have Trump. I’m going to go hide under the bed.

Sadly, a lot of this we did to ourselves. The Russians took advantage of our racism and fear to get us here.

Instead of Uncle Sam getting punched, it should have been former President Obama.

Sadly, this is just another example of the ongoing “Dumbing Down” of the American voter. They no longer take the time to actually research a candidate’s stand on certain issues, but rather they rely on the internet and biased websites like Breitbart and Prison Planet to do their critical thinking for them and to tell them how to vote. And when outside groups like the Russians get control of certain media and can flood on-line outlets with THEIR propaganda disguised as the truth, YES, they can influence an election!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/kremlin-trolls-burned-across-the-internet-as-washington-debated-options/2017/12/23/e7b9dc92-e403-11e7-ab50-621fe0588340_story.html

Mr. Mueller, if you are out there, find the 30,000 e-mails linking the Trump crime family to Russian collusion and money laundering.

The Russians are STILL, to this day, spreading false and/or biased information across the World Wide Web and the republican “fellow travellers” in Congress are using those same Russian ‘talking points’ to spread hate against the F.B.I. and the C.I.A.! At the same time, Sinclair Broadcast Group, an ultra-conservative right-wing info supporter, has been given the okay by the F.C.C. to buy into and supply ‘local news’ to over 70% of American radio stations, and has also destroyed “net neutrality”, thereby basically allowing “big business”, whose ONLY concern is the ‘bottom line’, to decide what information the American public has access to! Meanwhile, Donnie is continuing his relentless attacks on “The Rule of Law” by continually attacking the American judiciary and federal law enforcement!

Step outside and look around. The view may look different, geographically, but the country you see bears a striking resemblance, geopolitically, to Germany a year after Hindenburg appointed Hitler to the Chancellorship on January 30, 1933! I may be rushing this a bit, but it probably wouldn’t hurt for blacks to start brushing up on their “Camptown Ladies” song and dance routine, and the Hispanics in America might want to start researching proper etiquette on dealing with “El Patron!”

Kremlin-linked Len Blavatnik [Access Industries/AI-Altep], who in 2015-2016 pumped $6.35M into GOP PACs, w/ millions going to top GOP leaders including McConnell, Rubio & Graham and in 2017 poured $1M into to McConnell's Senate Leadership Fund.MaddowBlog #Maddow pic.twitter.com/5KoSM45dcR

How Putin’s proxies helped funnel millions into GOP campaigns – @UofDallas researcher Ruth May is an expert in all things corporate in Russia and has mapped the money trail from Russian oligarchs to the @GOP and Trump.

Keep reminding yourself that the only reason the @GOP would want to stop #Mueller is because they believe @realDonaldTrump is guilty of treason.

Otherwise, they would want the @FBI and Mueller to exonerate him.So entire #GOP is actively obstructing justice to protect a traitor.

Ridiculous. There is not a scintilla of evidence that Russian efforts changed a single vote. Not through hacking, not through propaganda, not through social media and not through fake news.

The Russians have attempted to interfere in our elections and in those of other nations since at least WWII and likely earlier. That is a commonly known fact. But I challenge anyone to produce proof that they were ever successful in even the slightest manner in the US.

@AndyLit You are missing the point. The aim of Putin and Co. is not to change votes per se, but to undermine the integrity of our system of government by destroying confidence in our institutions. They have been doing the same thing with the European liberal democracies, and have been called out by both Merkel and Macron in no uncertain terms. They don’t really give a damn who gets elected as long as they have been able to weaken faith in the liberal democratic system. You are ringing in a straw man argument here by emphasizing change of votes as the purpose of Russian meddling—-which you may be well aware of if you’re one of the Russian moles.

@Andy is actually “lit”.

Regurgitating the Russian talking points that the meddling “if it actually happened”, “didn’t change any voting machine votes”, except when it did.

Who knows? The evidence was destroyed.

When Trump talks about 3 million votes being stolen, that is a tip that Trump stole 3 million votes somehow.

2018 will be just as colluded, as the GOP doesn’t care if the Russians interfere in our elections

The Mice that Floored?