Stupid politicians are elected by stupid voters. It’s not a mystery.
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O/T: Russia and Turkey are officially splitting the Kurdish zone…
I’ve run out of curse words, anyone care to share some good ones?
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Oh, I doubt the final, decisive refutation of that by any investigative body that matters would lay it to rest one bit. If the Republican Party survives they’ll be talking about Hillary a century from now.
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Fluoridation and Pasteurization are next up if Crowdstrike doesn’t pan out.
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I’m not sure I agree in this case. At least conventionally, the most damaging stories are the easiest for the attacker to explain and the hardest for the defender to justify. Here, the defense is “what??? you don’t know how computers work”.
In this case, Republicans find themselves, quite appropriately, looking like the crazy guy stringing up the web of yarn on the wall. You can fool some of the people all of the time, of course, but I don’t think this is going to get anything like the traction that “but her emails!!” found.
Like, what percentage of Americans recognize the name “Crowdstrike”? The targetable market for this conspiracy seems small right off the bat.
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Lets be frank. Republicans are overwhelmingly Evangelical “Christians” who are actually authoritarian Churchists. The Words they are told are literally true, regardless of evidence. World is only 10,000 years old. Given their need to have solid things to believe in, and their credulity if it allows them feel they are in control and better than everyone else, they are ripe to believe in conspiracy theories.
The far left in the world is as bad, it just happens to be in the US that we have a far bigger far right (basically 85% of the republican party) than a far left (Stein/Gabbard’s supporters and the Bernie Bros)
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Ummmm…this was to be expected the moment the meeting between the two of them was announced.
Score another “win” for Spankee.
OT: BoJo the Clown won the First of the two votes going through tonight. Also Sinn Fein says “united Ireland proposal will show up within the next five years” while SNP is also threatening independence.
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“Well isn’t that special?”
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That’s the problem with DC dentists - they put that special filling in Republican patient’s teeth that makes them pick up all kinds of radio broadcasts…
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Can watch it live on Sky.
Been watching on and off over at the Guardian. Hubby watches BBC via internet but he’s at a meeting downtown right now (I’m enjoying his absence, haha).
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You gotta hand it to Hillary. She’s super good at covering her tracks. The Republicans are having to resort to all sorts of treason to uncover even a sliver of all the wrongness. It’s totally worth it though, because reasons.
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The thing is that CrowdStrike did not give the servers to the FBI. When a computer is operating there is a lot of information that is volatile, users, processes, datasets, that is continuously changing and you could never know what was going on unless you take periodic “snapshots” of the critical pars of the system. CrowdStrike provided those “snapshots” which could have captured extraneous users or processes and delivered in the FBI, not the servers themselves (which there is nothing to see there, specially if it has been turned off since).
What republicans are bitching about is that the “snapshots” were manipulated to show that it was the Russians the ones that hacked the system, to cover up for later assassinated Seth Rich that delivered the emails to Wikileaks. Now how the servers ended up in Ukraine, I don’t really know.
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Like HRC’s emails, a “server” is something that can elude them forever, so they can hunt for a mythic truth in earnest, raising money and concern with urgency as needed.
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And the trick of losing the election so that Trump would be in a position to search for evidence was genius.
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Meanwhile, in the House of Commons…
https://twitter.com/michaelsavage/status/1186708918984155137?s=20
Update: Boris on second vote
I must express my disappointment that the House has again voted for delay, rather than a timetable that would have guaranteed that the UK would be in a position to leave the EU on 31 October with a deal.
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When we’re all huddled together in our fingerless gloves, warming our bedraggled bodies around a 55 gallon drum of oily rags on fire, we can wax nostalgic about “Hillary’s Emails” … and perhaps some among us will go on a quest to discover the server and emails, as it is possibly the answer to humans regaining the top spot on the food chain again.
Starring Kevin Costner.
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I don’t think it’ll be terribly effective either, compared to the e-mails, which at least sprang from an actual, if minor, error of judgment. But we’ve seen a normalization of seriously wack conspiracy theories in the right-wing noise machine. Qanon comes to mind. It doesn’t have to be plausible to go zinging around the wingnuttosphere and allow people to say the Russia stuff is all a hoax. So when we go looking for a rational theory underlying the conspiracy stuff, we may be looking for a component they don’t think is important. I know a guy who makes gin and tonics without lime, for instance. I consider it madness, but he likes them well enough. Same principle. : )
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