Maggie's Farm

If the Russians were so successful at hacking and influencing past elections, and if the Democrats are so worried that they'll be doing it again and losing badly, how come we're not having Senate and House hearings to explore the issue and get laws passed? That's how normal people rank the severity / urgency of an issue these days.

Regarding COVID: In this part of the country there seems to be a resurgence in cases, but on the other hand, the cases seem to be milder. I've got it myself now, for the third time (Oct '20, Jan '21, now) according to the home test. Thought it was seasonal allergies at first.

" ...a brad set of links and interactions..... I bet there's lots of pretty flow charts lay it all out. And yet they've done nothing about it. Almost as if it wasn't substantial enough to capture hearts and minds. Thanks for supporting my case for me.

You give yourself away. Are you talking about the indictments that originated from within the Mueller team, that were dropped by the DOJ like a hot potato when the 'indicted' Russians hired a legal team that confronted the DOJ, and demanded discovery and full access to the information? In other words, called their bluff?

And if I recall correctly, did the Republican Congress and Administration really say the claims were false? I seem to remember they said the claims were being blown out of all proportion and ridiculous - and then proceeded to show why a few million dollars spent in FaceBook ads had no meaningful impact on the election, and in any case were representative of the normal trickery that goes on in election cycles - both here in the US, and in other countries, at the direction of the US. Your opinions are showing. Russia, Russia, Russia ! The old booga-booga.

All of these so-called actions are politically symbolic and normal conflict resolution in the world of international diplomacy. We run some diplomatic operatives out, they run some of ours out, tit-for-tat. How many people look at these actions today as being pivotal, or even relevant in a historical way? Nobody does. And once again, you cite opinions that are in line with Leftist operatives, as being 'proof'. Your quoting Fact Checkers from The Hill?? They are proof of your bias.

Go ahead - Take a poll: How many people think that Russians meaningfully influenced the elections in 2016 and 2020? I predict the numbers would fall along the political divide, and even then, the numbers would be low on your side and reflective of harder-core Leftists.

Conservative voters are going to have to be vigilant now that the '22 election season has begun. Republicans are in line for sweeping advances, and the internal turf battles are beginning now, between Establishment Republicans and Trump-styled populist conservatives. I think there's going to be a lot of damage done, the kind that Republicans seem to specialize in, the kind that keeps them weak as a political force, when compared to Democrats.

Eric Greitens seems to be targeted right now. He put out a RINO-hunting themed ad that has several groups triggered. Some are calling him out as erratic and irresponsible, some are pejoratively calling him a Democrat, and so on.

Greitens is an ex-seal, someone who left the Democratic party in 2015 because of the VA's treatment of vets. He was run out of the Missouri governorship by a smear scandal campaign, and ex-wife custody grievance, and prosecutor over-reach by a Soros-funded activist prosecutor (Kim Gardner), whose investigator was indicted on 7felonies (perjury, evidence tampering) and pled out to a misconduct misdemeanor.

Follow the story carefully and you'll see that the smearing continues - it's worked once, so..... I don't know much about Greitens, but his bio is interesting and he seems really to have gotten one dirty deal after another. I suspect we'll come to see that many credible and endorse-able Republican candidates that are outside of the Establishment may be subjected to similar campaigns, both from Democrats and Establishment Republicans. The changes are going to have to come from discriminating voters, because the Establishment Republicans, RINOs, are committed to the same tactics as their counterparts across that toxic aisle.