Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Russian influence operations, disinfo and psyops is a real and proven thing, operating on a significant scale, and targeting not only our elections but many others in Europe and Africa and other areas. The fact that Republicans don't even want to acknowledge it, let alone deal with it, and deflect with "Russia Russia Russia" is in and of itself a national security issue.
Everyone knows there are Russian psyops just like there are American psyops. The question is the crazed Russia “collusion” thing that obsessed the left and was mostly fiction (remember the “pee tapes”?). Trump is bad enough without making up dumb sh*t. If anything these fantasies are more likely actually planted and promoted by Russia to make Dems look stupid.
MAGA's “Russia hoax” narrative only survives by pretending the Steele dossier and a rumored pee tape are the whole story. They aren’t.
The FBI opened its investigation
before even hearing about the Steele Dossier, after a Trump adviser bragged that Russia had “dirt” in the form of stolen emails. Trump’s team then held a “love it” meeting for “Russia and its government’s support,” his campaign chair with deep Russian ties shared internal polling with a suspected intel asset, Flynn lied about secret sanctions talks with the Russian ambassador, Sessions lied about meetings with the same ambassador, and Trump publicly sided with Putin over U.S. intelligence in Helsinki.
Add years of Russian money flowing into Trump properties and a secret Trump Tower Moscow project during the campaign, and you don’t even
need a pee tape to see the problem.
Mueller didn’t charge a criminal conspiracy, but he absolutely did not say "nothing happened."
Calling all of that "mostly fiction" or saying "stupid Dems" isn’t critical thinking; it’s closing your eyes to a specific, lengthy, well-documented foreign influence operation that our own intel community and a Republican-led Senate committee have already laid out in excruciating detail.