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Here Is The Hilarious E-mail A Former FBI Agent Received From A Russian Propaganda Site
We've written a ton in these pages about the joke that is Sputnik "news."
As we're fond of describing it, Sputnik is what would happen if you hired yourself about 30 circus clowns, 2 Photoshop whizzes, 3 KGB agents, and a web developer, and made yourself a Kremlin-sponsored propaganda site that, based on the color scheme, thinks it’s always Halloween.
Sputnik serves an important purpose in the self-referential propaganda campaign carried out on behalf of Moscow.
It's a pretty simple pro
smh, i hope you live a very long time HB.
May we all live long enough to see both wings of the Turkey Buzzard party relegated to history’s dust bin. Both sides sow the seeds of their demise daily.
Outsiders meddling in elections is not a good thing, agreed. Still without the meddling Hillary wouldn’t be president. People didn’t use the propaganda supplied by the Russians to make a decision, they used it to back up a decision already made.
Back in the 70’s i had a history teacher that made many outlandish predictions (off the record in private), such as the USSR imploding. The only major prediction yet to pass; America would break into 3-5 pieces following its change to a straight democracy. I thought the guy nuts. ( i think I was 12)
Tax reform as well as trade deals will happen. Everything else from both sides is just for show.
Pretend fighting to excuse hitting the citizens standing between them.
How about some ink on the need to revamp our voting system, what it might look like and how to profit from it? As far as this other stuff? both sides already agreed to sell the press to the highest bidder.
trust me when I tell you that unless you have first-hand knowledge of how Russian propaganda interacted with U.S.-based sites, you cannot say anything for certain about how potent and influential it was. We have that first-hand knowledge. confirmed, verified, without a shadow of a doubt.
obviously, that’s not to say we have videos of Vladimir Putin dressed up in a fake nose and glasses voting for Trump in swing states.
rather, we know for certain how this self-referential propaganda campaign worked here in the U.S.
it is not speculation. it is not something we have gleaned from second-hand sources. again, it is first-hand knowledge from primary sources.
unless you can say the same, don’t be so sure you know whether it swung the election or not.
If we need censorship to protect Americans from their own gullible stupidity, the blame rests squarely on our parent’s and teacher’s failure to expect critical thinking skills from our children…