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    Mueller's report looks bad for Obama

    Would you believe that it was CNN that published this?


    (CNN)The partisan warfare over the Mueller report will rage, but one thing cannot be denied: Former President Barack Obama looks just plain bad. On his watch, the Russians meddled in our democracy while his administration did nothing about it.
    The Mueller report flatly states that Russia began interfering in American democracy in 2014. Over the next couple of years, the effort blossomed into a robust attempt to interfere in our 2016 presidential election. The Obama administration knew this was going on and yet did nothing. In 2016, Obama's National Security Adviser Susan Rice told her staff to "stand down" and "knock it off" as they drew up plans to "strike back" against the Russians, according to an account from Michael Isikoff and David Corn in their book "Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump".

    Why did Obama go soft on Russia? My opinion is that it was because he was singularly focused on the nuclear deal with Iran. Obama wanted Putin in the deal, and to stand up to him on election interference would have, in Obama's estimation, upset that negotiation. This turned out to be a disastrous policy decision.

    Obama's supporters claim he did stand up to Russia by deploying sanctions after the election to punish them for their actions. But, Obama, according to the Washington Post, "approved a modest package... with economic sanctions so narrowly targeted that even those who helped design them describe their impact as largely symbolic." In other words, a toothless response to a serious incursion.

    But don't just take my word for it that Obama failed. Congressman Adam Schiff, who disgraced himself in this process by claiming collusion when Mueller found that none exists, once said that "the Obama administration should have done a lot more." The Washington Post reported that a senior Obama administration official said they "sort of choked" in failing to stop the Russian government's brazen activities. And Obama's ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, said, "The punishment did not fit the crime" about the weak sanctions rolled out after the 2016 election.

    A legitimate question Republicans are asking is whether the potential "collusion" narrative was invented to cover up the Obama administration's failures. Two years have been spent fomenting the idea that Russia only interfered because it had a willing, colluding partner: Trump. Now that Mueller has popped that balloon, we must ask why this collusion narrative was invented in the first place...

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/19/opini...ngs/index.html

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    I saw this earlier on the internet. It was surprising to me, but if you look at the blurb for the writer he does appear to be a Republican that served under Bush and McConnel and it is an 'opinion' piece. So just their attempt present another viewpoint. I'd have been more surprised and impressed if it had been one of their regular media people. But it is front and center on the home page, so I give them that.

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    Yeah maybe. Yet, best of all is that try as they may, FAIL. Again.

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    "Russian interference" is way over blown. So, they took out something like 50,000 dollars in ads, that is a minuscule amount. The real interference is in our face, the monopolistic tech companies, traitorous politicians and deep state actors in cahoots with China. As is typical, the focus on Russia is a deflection, hiding the true danger.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    "Russian interference" is way over blown. So, they took out something like 50,000 dollars in ads, that is a minuscule amount. The real interference is in our face, the monopolistic tech companies, traitorous politicians and deep state actors in cahoots with China. As is typical, the focus on Russia is a deflection, hiding the true danger.
    The social media platforms must have affected elections a lot more, directly or indirectly (by way of the data they supply others with). In Canada the government has decided to apply counter measures directly to social media and that is a dangerous development because what it effectively amounts to is self justified government media control and censorship.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    The social media platforms must have affected elections a lot more, directly or indirectly (by way of the data they supply others with). In Canada the government has decided to apply counter measures directly to social media and that is a dangerous development because what it effectively amounts to is self justified government media control and censorship.
    They are doing the censorship at the behest of China. When you hear the word "globalist", it really means one world communism, led by China. The tech companies are up to their necks with Chinese relationships, as are the media and show business industries.

    The CIA is also Chinese led. Our enemies are domestic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    They are doing the censorship at the behest of China. When you hear the word "globalist", it really means one world communism, led by China. The tech companies are up to their necks with Chinese relationships, as are the media and show business industries.

    The CIA is also Chinese led. Our enemies are domestic.
    I'm not so sure about communism and China isn't much of a communist state any longer but it could well amount to China-inspired totalitarianism being made global.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    I'm not so sure about communism and China isn't much of a communist state any longer but it could well amount to China-inspired totalitarianism being made global.
    Pure communism has never been put into practice, it is only a theory. Working communism, the way it has played out is in fact totalitarianism.

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    Pure communism has never been put into practice, it is only a theory. Working communism, the way it has played out is in fact totalitarianism.
    Yes but I think China is mostly just totalitarian by now. Combating Capitalism as such isn't important any longer.

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    Yes but I think China is mostly just totalitarian by now. Combating Capitalism as such isn't important any longer.
    China has a weaponized form of capitalism. Everything is done with state approval. If you are US based and want to do business in China, you submit to their demands. The googles, facebooks, etc. are fully submitted, so while everyone claims that the tech companies are "left leaning", that is just a ploy. The tech companies are in partnership with China, way down the road from "left-leaning". The networks are also submitted, the cover story being "left leaning", while the real story is "in bed with a totalitarian state".

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