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Could it be that Moderatus is really a Russian bot?
Do we have any record of his lifeless basement-dweller statements prior to 2014?
The basemenr is apparently in St. Petersburg. And I'm not talking about the one in Florida.
Recent story in The Week magazine, reported from the Netherlands…. Dutch intelligence hacked into Russian hacking outfit Cozy Bear back in mid-2014. They watched in real time as Cozy Bear hacked into the State Department, Congress, and the DNC. They located Cozy Bear's office building in Moscow; hacked into the security camera; and observed multiple visits to Cozy Bear by known Russian FSB operatives. They passed on all info to US intelligence.
Nah, He's too stupid. I think he's a Republican bot.
Note that a number of fake news items and polemical memes were pushed hard by the Russians, including both Black Lives Matters and Blue Lives Matters. Also, Jill Stein & Bernie Sanders. The whole point is to sew (or sow) discord and fear…
Donald Trump on the other hand, is clearly coordinating with the Russian strategy. He is not stupid like Moddy. Well, he is ignorant and evil, but he’s not stupid.
Have you ever been in a hard-sell condo pitch? It is a brain-washing technique to keep up the noise and distractions. Trump’s primary target is member of the legislature as much as it is the US people.
Examples? Or more blather perpetuating the Dem divide? As a Sanders supporter, I was pretty careful to pass on only factual critiques of HRC. I reported a couple of rather nasty porno anti-HRC posts to Facebook.
And are you seriously claiming that Black Lives Matter is infiltrated by Russians?
No, The Bernie and Jill campaigns already existed (and I was a Bernie supporter).
The point is that the Russian strategy was (and Trumps strategy is!) to exacerbate the differences and divisions already existing in the American population. In that respect, they were equal-opportunity trolls, trying to cut down Hillary Clinton and promote Donald Trump. To that end they used both fake news and real news, in coordination with existing Republican Party propaganda operations, like Fox News.
WRT Black Lives Matters, there was an effort to push or retweet the most radical voices. Same thing with Blue Lives Matters, I would never accuse Voyager of being a Russian Troll, but I'll be he has read and perhaps been taken in by lots of retweets of fake news about Blue Lives Matters.
It is the same story as the FBI in the 1960s anti war protests. The infiltrator (if you wish), was not necessarily leading the protest on the Campus Quad, but there was always that one guy in the back saying "Protest doesn't work; what we really need to do is burn down the Student Union". The goal is to discredit and delegitimize the anti war movement. And it worked! The half of the US populace that wasn't against the Vietnam war, aged into the Tea Party voters.
Hey, you try making it on Social Security and a Denver Post pension. Those rubles help out a lot!
And the free vodka is great.
The Bernie campaign was already in existence and he was a serious and legitimate candidate.
Jill Stein was what another famous Russian leader would have labeled a "useful idiot."
Interesting. I agree that this is still happening today – many of the infiltrators in the anti-fascist movement seem to be provocateurs.
These people do tend to be the most militant, and to thrive by shaming other activists into being more violent and taking more risks . That tactic works better with men than women, and with naive young people than with older, seasoned activists.
You can see a mirror image of those same divisions within modern law enforcement and the FBI. There are certainly plenty of racists and tea party folks within those organizations – they keep generating the atrocities that keep Black Lives Matter outraged and active.
Their counterparts are truly dedicated to peace, security, and order, to keeping the public safe. The same FBI that paid provocateurs to infiltrate the original Black Panthers, SDS, and antiwar organizations in the 60s and 70s is now trying to protect the public against Russian operatives targeting democracy.
In the bizarro world we live in today, it is the true "law and order" people who are keeping the Russian cyberinvasion at bay. Our allies. – even if the ghost of Abbie Hoffman is outraged.
Report: Russia-Linked Facebook Ads Boosted Jill Stein, Bernie Sanders
Russian Trolls Promoted Trump While Trashing Black Lives Matter On Twitter
Russian Trolls Used ‘Up To 100’ Activists To Organize Events In US, Report Finds
Russian Troll Farm Ran Twitter Account Posting In Tennessee GOP’s Name
How Russia’s Propaganda Campaign Exploited America’s Prejudices
WOTD from Vox: "Black Panther Trolling"
Is that a promotion from patsy?
Can you be a dupe if you are part of the conspiracy?
There is a big difference between a witting dupe and an unwitting dupe. Most dupes aren't actually unwitting; they want to be duped. That is the art of the affinity fraud.
Likewise most traitors like the Trump campaign team are witting dupes. That is the kind of person targeted for cooptation by spy agencies.
Pols. Serious typo problem. Colorado did NOT vote to elect Donald Trump. Hillary +5, I think it was.
Yeah, didn't take much to catch that. An example of fake news on Pols?
That's it! All the Russians were doing was committing typos.
Yikes! Not added with emphasis, because obviously.
Andrew Carnegie was obvious. I called him out loooooooong time ago.
CPOLS should extract his posts and put a timeline to them.
Concur.
He did seem to be in thrall to the NRA as much as any good Russian apparatchik . . .
. . . but he’s gone, and it’s those remaining
steinbots sleepers and double-agents still hiding, right now, in plain sight that concern me for the 2018 cycle.I thought I had heard somewhere that Ronnie and the Raygunettes had won the Cold War?
Final victory in the Cold War came on George H.W. Bush's watch.
Is that what you’d like us to believe comrade Vski? . . .
. . . V(ladimir)???
WOTD from TPM: "High Drama"
Rod Rosenstein acts like a real Attorney General and provides cover for Mueller's on-going investigation into how the Russians and the Trump campaign coordinated.
https://youtu.be/fMwk6wE8RbM
Interesting that they are rounding up the foreigners first. That makes sense if you are a Boa Constrictor and slowly squeezing valuable information out of smaller rats. Those with less loyalty to the Dear Leader might be more prone to cut a deal that would lay a bigger trap of perjury and self incrimination later on. Talk about a Friday news dump.
I've been thinking it is so ironic that the Moldy's of the world are thrilled with the 700billion/year for the military but don't want to fund anything to protect our democracy from this new form of attack. You would think the little bitches would be even more paranoid than normal that their vote wasn't fair. They keep loudly proclaiming how patriotic they are.
The question about Moldy is — was he a useful idiot for the Russians, or merely the useless idiot his Grammy believes?
They are demanding a large and colorful military parade.
Actually the little shits are afraid that the vote will be fair. That means they lose. They need their vote to count for more which explains why Wyoming, Montana, North and South Dakota have eight senators and California has two. The last thing they want is a fair vote so of course they are traitors and unpatriotic pukes. Ryan, McConnell, Moldy, et al are shitting on our basic rights for nothing more noble than power. What punks. They should all be indicted for being unAmerican and that includes you Moldy.
Every state has two Senators. Representatives are apportioned by the state population. Colorado has 7 Reps, WY 1, ID 1, etc. CA has 53. NY has 27.
Colorado really should have an 8th Representative, and probably will after the 2020 census, especially if the NDRC is able to redistrict fairly. This is because our population has grown hugely in the last decade (thanks, renewables, tech, and cannabis!)
Not everyone thinks fast population growth is wonderful, mj.
I think she means as opposed to oil, timber, and mining…you know, V. Stuff liberals like.☺
Morgan Carroll and Colorado Democrats call for Republicans to protect Mueller investigation:
*Press Release**
CO Dems Call For Action After DOJ Indictment Shows Russians Targeted Colorado in 2016
Colorado Democratic Party Chair Morgan Carroll issued the following statement in response to news that Colorado was targeted by Russian operatives in their effort to help put Donald Trump in the White House.
"This morning, the Department of Justice issued an indictment that shows that Russian nationals traveled to Colorado and targeted Colorado as part of a sophisticated Russian intelligence effort to help put Donald Trump in the White House.
Furthermore, the Director of National Intelligence said earlier this week that Russia is planning another attack on the United States to interfere in the 2018 midterm elections.
In light of this indictment from the FBI and this warning by the Director of National Intelligence, Colorado's congressional delegation – especially those who are members of Trump's party – must take immediate action to protect the Mueller investigation from interference by the Trump administration. (my emphasis)
In addition, leaders in Washington and Colorado must take immediate action to secure the integrity of our voting process from efforts by foreign governments to deny the will of the people.
Trump has claimed that the Russian attack on our democracy is a 'hoax,' and has taken no action to secure the integrity of the voting process. In fact, he has tried to undermine the investigation at every turn. Unfortunately, Republican politicians have gone along with Trump, putting party over country. They have demonstrated that they are more interested in protecting Trump than protecting our democracy from foreign attacks. The most important thing voters can do is elect Democrats in 2018 who will treat cyber security and attempts to meddle in our elections with the seriousness they deserve."
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I am still struck by the lack of analysis (here or anywhere) re: what impact the Putin operations had on races OTHER than the Presidential race. Weren't there some close state legislative races in Colorado in 2016, for example? Is anyone considering they may have been impacted by not only the Russian efforts to sow division but also their pro-Trump/anti-Hillary propaganda? I'd love to see some professional political folks take a stab at this.
It would be hard to quantifu, but sure it's possible. Some Republican House candidates benefited rather directly, it's been found. Many others were probably helped less obviously. And sure, boosting Trumpian turnout and dpressing Democratic Hillary skeptics through the propaganda mill almost certainly helped some Republicans down-ballot too. Might have altered the results of a ballot measure somewhere if we looked closely.
What matters is, we're in an information war with Russia, and some of us don't hold the horrified view you'd think they should. Kind of like the folks in WWII who thought the nazis and fascists weren't so bad – enough that they provided equipment to those regimes or even plotted a coup on FDR.