(02-24-2018 03:23 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(02-24-2018 03:20 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  As indicated earlier, Team Hillary was a great force multiplier for those Russian efforts, and the process that seemed to be in effect at the Obama White House and the moves in response to and using a paid-for political operative version of the National Enquirer in the FISA court are another massive force multiplier for Team Russia as well.

And, in light of the current 'collusion' narrative showing nothing of the sort, the semi-continuous chanting of that investigation being tied to Trump is yet another massive force multiplier for Team Russia Political Action Committee.

Look if Mueller comes up with nothing more than "bunch of Russkies that we will never be able to extradite bought Facebook ads and ran bots", and "Well Trump hired a guy who avoided taxes to be campaign manager for an extremely limited amount of time" (not defending bad judgement there on Trump's part), the entire fing "collusion" hullabaloo will not only be a false narrative, but one emphasized and magnified for two+ years.

In a weird way I hope that collusion is shown at this point, so that US citizens arent the main architects and agents of continued and persistent damage from initial Russian activities.

I'm shocked you left out Mitch McConnell's role in your list of critiques.

I dont seem to recall McConnell meeting the days after the election and deciding to push a Russia/collusion narrative to explain an electoral loss.

Nor do I recall McConnell paying for the a Russian-sourced Steele Dossier.

Nor do I recall McConnell peddling a Russian-sourced version of a National Enquirer level dossier payed by a political campaign for political ends it to the FBI and Obama White House to investigate.

Lot of substantive, directed, and intentional activity took place well before McConnell, Lad. Lots of it.

As I said before

Quote:In a weird way I hope that collusion is shown at this point, so that US citizens who were the losers in an election arent the main architects and agents of continued and persistent damage from initial Russian activities.