Russia hacked U.S. presidential election for Trump, says CIA

Jesus wept.

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Did you miss the sarcasm there?

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So this is meant to be indicative of the strength of your respective arguments?

Lets none of us waste anymore time. The argument is definitely a waste of my time and might be even be a waste for all of us.

As they say, paka droogs.

Dasvidanya comrade.

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comrade is tovarishe

Well, yeah.

I tried to find a source for this which would be more au courant with the Zeitgeist here at BB, but I had to settle for zerohedge.

Still, it’s got a name, and a document: two things which the Russian hacking story still lack.

It’s also got a retraction, something else the Russian story lacks.

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Oh look, I found this on the internet and it has a name, a document, and it’s called an article! It must be true… right?

How about this one?
https://www.st[0]rmfr[0]nt.org/forum/t553062/
(Not linking directly for obvious reasons, also the o’s have been replaced with 0’s for the same reason. trolley prevention people, it’s a thing.)

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NO PUPPET! NO PUPPET!

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Fuck me… and people said this guy won that debate. Post facts doesn’t even begin to describe politics anymore.

@lolipop_jones you are wrong about the Saudi donations, and Greenwald is at best on a witch hunt this political season. He not only has fallen back on fucking name calling when he is called out for being an idiot this year, he aggressively pushes conspiracies just to promote anti-Clinton sentiments. He veered wide right of his self-proclaimed brave and objective journalism when he regularly included unsubstantiated claims in his editorials about the election, and even he never went further than “the Clinton Foundation is clearly a corrupt and for-personal-profit pay-for-play organization” instead of trying to claim Clinton literally funneled campaign funds from Saudi Arabia through the foundation.

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Kinda crazy watching bits of the debates in retrospect and realizing how dead-on Hillary’s accusations were, even ones that some folks said went too far into conspiracy theory. She was smarter, and truthful, but he was louder and more fun to watch, I guess?

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Media favorite!

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Yeah, but who wants a smart, articulate, experienced woman representing us?

Seriously, I wish we had betting agencies the way the UK does, If you could bet on or against Trump’s promises there would be some easy pickings to be had.

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I already saw an exchange that went (paraphrasing):

Person A: Trump’s put in such a corrupt cabinet.

Person B: It’s no more corrupt than Obama’s was.

People are willing to lower their expectations from “Revolution” to “Business as usual but my team won this round”

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So, I did a bunch more reading, and I have to admit I agree with your conclusion. Russian state-affliated hacking groups most likely hacked US political groups. I dont know if they got that material to wikileaks directly indirectly or at all.

I would definitely be surprised if Assange but particularly Murray have knowingly lied.

But the Russian authorities do appear to have “messed around” with the US election process.

Mea Culpa.

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