Dear Russia, Thank You.

[Koba St]

Thank you for hacking her advisers and having her adopt a Syrian no-fly-zone policy that would have started WWIII.

Thank you for hacking into Debbie Wasserman Schultz' mind and making her favor Hillary unfairly.

Thank you for hacking into the DNC and making them rig every primary without a paper trail against Bernie.

Thank you for hacking her social media handlers and making them tweet "Imagine President Trump..."

Thank you for hacking into her past and making her a homophobic moral scold who said Doom turns kids into serial killers.

Thank you for hacking into the American public and making them care more about their security, prosperity, and future than they care about divisive subgroup identities or letting in huge waves of radical Muslims who could be perfectly happy in a dozen Islamic theocracies closer to their nation of origin.

Seriously, your skills with the cyber are amazing. We could never have done this without you!

 

[levitate]

Isn't American foreign policy also built around interference?

Pot and kettle.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

2016 was a good year for Putin with Brexit and Trump elected. Next year sanctions are expected to expire. France is likely going to elect a pro Russian president. So France and the US will lift sanctions against Russia. Plus there is more election in Europe which means the populist wave that is going through Russia will weakened the EU. And also the upcoming Italian banking crisis coming which may lead an Italian debt crisis which could destroy the EU. Things are starting to look good for Russia in a strategic standpoint.

China too. TPP is dead.

 

[filial_piety]

I'm not sure I follow your first point about the Electoral College. Folks protesting that someone can become President while losing the popular vote by 2.5 million is 1) well within their rights and 2) a legitimate concern in that it is counter to a true democratic process (I know we're in a democratic republic, but fukk all that... popular vote >> *)

Regarding the DNC...there was/is outrage. Is Debbie still in charge? Did not Bernie Bros show their discontent? Did not your favorite news site (Fox News) report on the incident ad nauseam?

1) I think it's fairly obvious. The Electoral College is traditionally a part of our Democratic system, it has always been that way. Attempting to cast doubt in it's legitimacy NOW when your candidate doesn't win because of it, is a threat the Democratic system itself. Where's the outrage over that?

2) In 2008, during the Democratic primaries, Clinton won the popular vote, but yet lost the super delegate count to Obama. Obama still went forward to become the 44th POTUS. Again, where's the outrage?

3) The DNC 'hacked' emails exposed the corruption within the Democratic party to elect Clinton as their nominee regardless of who challenged her. It interefered with our fair and impartialDemocratic process. It was a fait accompli from the jump. Again, where's the outrage?

3) The popular vote is debatable because for starters, it was a direct result of major disparity in one highly populated state (California). 2) only 50% of the those eligible to vote actually voted in the turn out for the entire election--we don't know how the other 45% would have voted. The Popular Vote is hardly "popular" at all. All in all, it doesn't matter, because if it doesn't change anything, in fact, both candidates most likely would have taken different paths to campaigning if it did matter in any way.

4) Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned after being exposed, yet she was still appointed as an "honorary chair person" of the Clinton Campaign. Where is the outrage?

And Donna Brazile is still chairman of the DNC after attempting to thrwart the debates through her connections in the media. Again, where is the outrage over any of this?

Bernie Sanders was treated like an abused step child, and yet he stood next to her and pretended as if none of this ever happened. And now he's on TV talking about a need for a "full investigation" into "Russian hacking"...but hasn't called for a "full investigation" by the DNC into the corruption that caused him to get shytted on the first place?

Again, where's the outrage? WHy aren't heads rolling over any of this???

I echo the OP's sentiments...thank you Russia

 

[b_low_brown]

1) I think it's fairly obvious. The Electoral College is traditionally a part of our Democratic system. it has always been that way. Attempting to cast doubt in it's legitimacy NOW when your candidate doesn't win because of it, is a threat the Democratic system itself. Where's the outrage over that?

2) In 2008, during the Democratic primaries, Clinton won the popular vote, but yet lost the super delegate count to Obama. Obama still went forward to become the 44th POTUS. Again, where's the outrage?

3) The DNC 'hacked' emails exposed the corruption within the Democratic party to elect Clinton as their nominee regardless of who challenged her. It was a fait accompli from the jump. Again, where's the outrage?

3) The popular vote is debatable because for starters, it was a direct result of major disparity in one highly populated state (California). 2) only 50% of the those eligible to vote actually voted in the turn out for the entire election--we don't know how the other 45% would have voted. The Popular Vote is hardly "popular" at all. All in all, it doesn't matter, because if it doesn't change anything, in fact, both candidates most likely would have taken different paths to campaigning if it did matter in any way.

4) Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned after being exposed, yet she was still appointed as an "honorary chair person" of the Clinton Campaign. Where is the outrage?

And Donna Brazile is still chairman of the DNC after attempting to thrwart the debates through her connections in the media. Again, where is the outrage over any of this?

Bernie Sanders was treated like an abused step child, and yet he stood next to her and pretended as if none of this ever happened. And now he's on TV talking about a need for a "full investigation" into "Russian hacking"...but hasn't called for a "full investigation" by the DNC into the corruption that caused him to get shytted on the first place

According to these guys, ALL that shyt irrelevant. They wanna focus on what russia MAYBE did instead of our issues right on our doorstep. Completely unsurprised though that's how americas always operated

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

What I find curious about this whole thing is that liberal proponents of American Empire were unable to make the case as to why Donald Trump would be distruptive to the imperial agenda.

Or perhaps that was it. Donald Trump's pathological lying extended to undermining Clinton's rhetoric about preserving American hegemony. Maybe the American people are ready to abandon their Empire and they fell for a candidate who promised them manna from heaven...but Trump obviously isn't the individual to do it.