I'm not saying that Russians hacked our election or anything, but...

[Joe Molotov]

There's a lot of white people there. Something's going on.

[T-Short]

[chronovore]

I was playing with this idea in my head today as well; I mean, if it's going to be investigated, we've barely got two months before Il Duce di Cheetoh would be able to shut down investigative committees.

[Cerveza mas fina]

You greatly overestimate what Russia is capable off, but I won't lie, I thought about this too this morning

[chronovore]

You greatly overestimate what Russia is capable off, but I won't lie, I thought about this too this morning

Russia is actually capable of quite a bit, but it reeked too much of the standard conspiracy: "A shadowy cadre did this to us!" The truth is worse: We did this to ourselves.

But the clincher for me is the narrative makes more sense: No-one liked the candidates, so they didn't vote (lower voter turnout overall), and the fly-over states have felt that the libruls on the coast have been pushing the intellectual agenda, LGBTQ agenda, the feminist agenda, and the "colored" agenda down their throat (homophobia implication intended) for eight years, under a president who they didn't like. The reporting I saw said that in districts with less-than-10% college education, Trump took more than 80% of the votes.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Can we really say that the email hacking was an absolute evil? It did expose the fact that the DNC had more-or-less coronated HRC from the get-go and reinforced HRC's secrecy and bunker mentality via the leaked exchange between Podesta and some NGO official re: HRC's private email server. These are things that I think the public deserved to know.

[VomKriege]

I'll be curious to see one day what intelligence had to say about this and how much was proven (or at least solid). It's not hard to see why Russia might like Trump and how he is maybe an unique opportunity that they would wish to extend a covert helping hand to, and the Manafort-DNC hack-Wikileaks elements are all plausible. Beyond that people really went wild with seeing Russia everywhere, behind the FBI email investigation or the Jill Stein campaign stating they'd prefer to fight open bigots rather than class traitors (Radical left party professing accelerationism ? Surely only can be explained by a Tcheka plot), that Trump had been compromised in an honeypot in Moscow (I would expect him to brag about how he fucked some Russian hotties, not be blackmailed, to be fair) and was taking orders directly from the Komintern.

[Kara]

My FSB handlers have been laughing about this conspiracy theory for awhile now.

[Brehvolution]

The alt right loves the control of communism. They just hate the sharing aspect.

[VomKriege]

A Russian official said to the Financial Times that there were some contacts between members of the Trump campaign and Russian representatives, which only sounds nefarious if you're primed to read it that way. The statement also say that Russia is not hyped for the result because the US election is a "bi partisan anti-Russia platform".

[Cerveza mas fina]

Russia is very happy with this result, prob best president for them ever

My only concern for Trump is that he doesnt give them too much slack