ED-057 wrote:I entered the phrase "russia hacked election" into Google and it returned 1.2 million results. On the first page:
Ignoring the fact that three of the headlines you listed don't even refer to the topic you say they do, I took your challenge, and put that exact same phrase into Google - for whatever it's worth, I only spotted two of the same first-page headlines you did. In one of them, if you scroll maybe a quarter of the way down the page you find this, as its own paragraph:
There is no evidence that any of the registration rolls were altered in any fashion, according to U.S. officials.
And in the second one, maybe halfway down, again its own paragraph:
US officials told NBC that there is no evidence that any of the rolls were altered.
Could you accuse the headlines of being sensationalist? Sure, I could understand that. Of course, the point of such eye-grabbing headlines is to try to lure people into clicking the links and
reading the articles - if said articles omitted such relevant information, or even just hid it deep within a mess of text to make it hard to catch, I might see your point, but sorry, this, like most such "look! look! see? see? right there, don't you
see it?" moments, is as much of a "bombshell" as the Nunes memo (whose overnight journey from white-hot hype to "we don't want to talk about this" I still find both sadly telling and absolutely hilarious on a grand scale
).
Who specifically wrote the headlines? I guess there's a slim chance that it was never a party official or Clinton campaign staffer
I swear, is there a single person on here - or hell,
anywhere - who can provide a viewpoint from the right
without the baseline assumption that everything can be somehow traced back to a Soros/Clinton/etc. panopticon device in a secret volcano base somewhere? If the media really were at the DNC's beck and call, they could have started by laughing the ludicrous cheerleaders of Whitewater, Benghazi, and Uranium One off the stage (or at least stop inviting them back, year after year, as well-paid "contributors"), and they wouldn't have even had to do anything besides actually report what a farce they all were/are.
BTW, it's a little funny how quickly they dismiss Trump's voter fraud claims one minute, and then pretend to be worried about it again the next minute when it could be caused by Russians.
...also, I'd someday like to be referred to a conservative/libertarian/whatever voice that
doesn't reflexively play dumb. There's no way you're not aware that in-person voter fraud, by illegals or anyone else, is
exceedingly rare, nor that the right's nuke-the-mosquito "just in case" efforts to prevent it, even on the rare occasions that they
don't assert that all those statistics are made up by
The Deep State to throw everyone off the trail, do
infinitely more to disenfranchise legitimate voters than discourage illegitimate ones, and
that's the point. Don't patronize me.
Maintaining Russia's boogeyman status and limiting the power of a loose cannon like Trump are definitely in the one party's interest.
Yup, slashing their taxes, gutting their regulations, keeping the immigration issue focused exclusively on the immigrants themselves rather than what lures them here in the first place, keeping everyone on edge so the military-industrial complex can gobble up even more of the economy than it already was, skyrocketing the debt and making everyone but the rich pay the price for it...this administration's got The Establishment (which Trump and his enablers, of course, have
no part whatsoever in, and benefit
not one jot from the status quo) quaking in their boots.
Seriously, how the
fuck are people
still saying this?
You're acting like there's some
other, completely different administration than the one whose
documented actions are being criticized that's
actually running things, but
only you know about it - but to even question that notion, of course, means that the questioner is just being
closed-minded, if not
brainwashed beyond repair.
Again, the fact that in this day and age I'm apparently supposed to treat this shit as a serious argument worthy of a serious response - and the fact that, against my better judgement, I too often do just that - is about the best case you could make that my posts in this thread are indeed made by someone completely out of his fucking mind.
Pop quiz: What's the difference between an H1B and an indentured servant?
Ask Daddy, not me.