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Russian hackers probed election systems in all 50 states, a new Senate report confirmed Thursday.
The report comes one day after former special counsel Robert Mueller told Congress that the Russian government is working to meddle in U.S. elections "as we sit here."
"It wasn't a single attempt," Mueller said Wednesday of Russia's 2016 election interference. "They're doing it as we sit here. And they expect to do it during the next campaign."
The bipartisan report by the Senate Intelligence Committee released Thursday confirmed previous comments by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that Russian hackers scanned election systems in all 50 states ahead of the 2016 presidential election. DHS initially acknowledged Russian attempts to hack into election systems in just 21 states.
Russia targeted all 50 states in 2016 election hacking campaign, Senate report confirms
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 27 2019, @06:27AM (10 children)
The democrats have had a history of being sore losers. Remember the recount that Al Gore made when he lost? He made a huge deal out of it and dragged it for as long as possible. At least the Republicans lose much more gracefully.
And Russia is communist, why would they want to rig the elections in favor of a Republican? Especially since the Republicans spend money on military endeavors, wouldn't the Russians not want the U.S. to get more powerful.
and if the elections are that easy to hack remotely, if you really believe that they were hacked, why aren't there investigations into countries that have hacked the elections in favor of Hillary? Or Obama? Why are elections only a problem when the democrats lose?
Not that I think Donald Trump is a great president, he is unqualified to be a president, but the democrats make themselves look foolish when they blame all of their loses on problems with the elections every time they lose.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday July 27 2019, @07:51AM (7 children)
Because maybe he is someone that they have leverage over? You know, perhaps something that he would rather never became public? Something embarrassing or illegal skeletons in the cupboard?
The Russians don't care if you have more weapons as long as they know that they will not be used.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 27 2019, @01:31PM (6 children)
Trump appears to be hated precisely because they don't have leverage over him. Everyone else went to Epstein Island or similar, not Trump.
The supposed bad stuff he did is like having sex with a porn star.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 27 2019, @02:06PM
FTFY.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday July 27 2019, @03:20PM (1 child)
If you don't believe that Trump has done things that he would rather were not made public, then you haven't been paying attention.
But the Russians and/or others would rather that they were not made public unless they can benefit from the incident, because it would mean that they have lost their leverage.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Saturday July 27 2019, @03:35PM
Not every old man is an Epstein, Weinstein, Moonves, Cosby, Kennedy, Clinton, etc.
There do actually exist old men who are not sex offenders, although the legacy media seems to be trying very hard to normalize it for obvious political reasons.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Saturday July 27 2019, @03:33PM (2 children)
I remember when that came out. The problem with elitist subversive propaganda is it loses touch with the general population until it sometimes has the opposite effect.
"Dude, he so banged a pr0n star" smelled like certain death to freaky degenerates who are trying to slut shame him so they went after him.
But a bit less that 1/2 of the population was straight males thinking "F yeah, high five bro, wish it was me, was she as good as she acts in movies?" and the other half of the population being straight females have been propagandized since being little girls with all this princess meets prince charming shit, so some hot rich powerful (aka sexy) man gets with a lower class girl and she's all hot for Trump now, she has no chance but the story gives her wish fulfillment and next thing you know she's voting Trump if she wasn't already ...
Remember when Prince Charles married Diana? I'm not saying she was a pr0n star, but she was a relative nobody, and rather than hate Charles for slutting it up with a commoner, people in general went batshit insane for those two.
Same thing when they try to slut shame Melania, only lonely hairy ugly old feminists hate her, everyone else in the general public goes batshit insane loving the story of prince charming marries and saves the hot new princess.
Some angry old cat lady that nobody respects screeching on CNN for five minutes isn't going to deprogram trillions of dollars and many decades of Disney princess BS.
It was just hilarious the screeching and howling of degenerate propaganda and doomsayers when it was reported, then two weeks later to the complete mystery of the degenerates, the polls for him went up, LOL.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 27 2019, @04:38PM
Back during the Clinton Lewinsky issue, I read an article that proposed what I though was a pretty accurate premise -- something along the lines of "most men weren't disappointed because he got some on the side, they were disappointed in him for getting caught."
Prudes, in times past and in the modern era, I think overestimate the prudishness of the general populace.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 28 2019, @05:12AM
I'm a straight male and I've always thought he's a douchebag. I guess I'm...different.
Obviously, I'm not a woman but I doubt this chump could have a big enough wallet to entice me if I were a woman.
Actually, she was born a royal. [geni.com] (Stop the presses! VLM is wrong again!) The tip off is that before they were married she was Lady Diana Spencer.
I could be wrong but I believe that Donald Trump's approval rating has never been above water. Go ahead and prove me wrong. I dare you!!!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday July 27 2019, @11:55AM
Not since 1991.
Spending money on military endeavors doesn't make one more powerful.
My take is that Russia doesn't care who gets elected, but the mere impression that they stole the election for Trump is worth quite a bit.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by VLM on Saturday July 27 2019, @03:02PM
One of the fascinating meta-arguments about Trump is the folks opposed don't seem to understand that the general public "gets" that pragmatically the last couple guys selected who were "ideally qualified" turned out to be crap, so maybe the criteria that make one "qualified" are crap.
Kinda like dating, there's some women that keep bringing home shitty guys and seem to refuse to even consider the problem might be they have awful selection criteria. Its always gotta be some other problem like bad luck or astrology or the whole system is rigged or where have all the good men gone or anything other than they have bad taste in men.