Nobody (or, at least, not many) thinks that Russia caused Trump to win.
But Russia is still a problem.
And there is now hard evidence that a lot of the REASON why Americans have gone so “mental” is due to the Russians, by design.
Have you SEEN some of the ads / propaganda they planted here (are still planting) via social media?
A picture of a crying woman draped across her veteran husband’s American-flag-covered casket, and the blurb below it quotes “Killary” Clinton (from the Benghazi hearings), “what difference does it make?” The ad says “Let’s show the Democrats that veterans make a difference” (or something similar) and the organization looks legit like “AmericanVets.com” but the FBI traced it back to this Russian company and it’s STILL being used even though Clinton isn’t even running for anything. And it’s now a perpetual meme, unwittingly picked up and spread on social media. And these types of “seed” ads were planted in various ways against Rubio, Clinton, Cruz, Black Lives Matter, Pro-NRA (even though Russia isn’t too into gun rights), and they even found a lot of evidence of Russian players planting these types of seeds online back to “Gamergate.” The Russian company’s goal is discord and destabilization.
The FBI found evidence of that this Russian company organized not only a pro-Trump rally but also an ANTI-Trump rally, in NYC, ON THE SAME DAY.
They found legit-looking Facebook and Twitter accounts spreading propaganda e.g. anti-Black Lives Matter, as well as having active members spreading “seeds” on places like reddit.
Al-quada attacked the WTC on Sept 11 not to invade or conquer our country but to destabilize it, and they succeeded. I would say that Russia has also succeeded.
We Americans were wondering where all this vitriol and anger was coming from, and we were blaming social media; the FBI just proved that there is also another more sinister reason.
What I LOVE, now, is Americans’ knowledge of this and the power it’s bringing, and skepticism of what’s online.
Read the comments on Trump’s Twitter feed.
Where it USED to be about 98% “MAGA President Trump, we love you!” It is now about 98% “You are a liar, you are going to prison, IT’S MUELLER TIME!” etc.
And when a Trump fan appears, the response is (hilariously): RUSSIAN BOT!
Lol lol lol
My favorite was:
STFU, Sputnik
Here’s what @
Exocet doesn’t get: Trump isn’t a Republican. He’s a Trumpist. He got DEMOCRAT UNION MEMBERS to vote for him (who are still registered Democrats) because Trump is NOT too right wing, to them he’s just “Trump” (and they haven’t figured out that he’s full of shit, yet). But Trump won by only about 76,000 votes. NOBODY thinks Russia got Trump elected. Not even the FBI. Republicans elected him, with the help of some Democrats who crossed over.
This country is NOT like Europe with “right” or “left” or “center.”
We are totally TRIBAL with only TWO tribes: Democrats and Republicans. The only way Trump or Sanders could win was to join one of the two tribes. Now Trump can’t get most of his agenda passed because the Republican Party is splintered into different factions and 7-8 extreme conservatives can hold things up in the Senate. Out of 49 of them.