I’m actually getting a bit frightened here, my own fault entirely, because I sat down and actually consumed some news. I should have watched something PG like “Frozen,” but those characters tend to annoy me in an entirely different way.
For those who have not been watching the news, the narrative is simple, the Russians did it. What did they do? Pretty much everything. If anything has gone wrong in your life, it’s probably because you have a little Russian troll following you around. I would suggest rubbing his fuzzy little head and asking him to go bring you a bucket of gold from the end of the rainbow, but that is just me.
Actually, I am not frightened by the little fuzzy heads, it is actually our own alphabet people who are scaring me, the lettered ones, CIA, FBI, NSA, the Men in Black. Like, where is my safe space?! I am not feeling your protection, provision here, I am feeling, well, teh stoopid, also known as playing politics. Yes, a total no confidence vote. That’s kind of scary.
I just want to say a couple of things. “Hacking” is when you actually break into somebody’s computer and steal their stuff….or alter it. You can do this from far away sometimes. A leak is when someone inside of your circle just hands over incriminating documents or data. In the ultimate twist of irony, those so-called incriminating things are what you have said and communicated in your very own words. Another way of saying this is the truth as you know it to be. In the US apparently we call this “stealing an election.”
And people wonder why we don’t trust politicians.
So I hate to defend any Russian trolls or anything, they make such a delightful arch-enemy, but the email scandal we have just wasted all this time on is actually probably a leak, not a hack.
Anthony Weiner comes to mind every time I type the word “leak,” as in it wasn’t cat pictures he was leaking all about the intertoobz. That actually has nothing to do with “hacking,” as in one simply cannot release info on the intertoobz and then claim you were “hacked.” Well, you can, but it just doesn’t work that way. You simply got caught…revealing the truth about yourself. Sorry? Oops? What can I say, stuff happens?
I love a good conspiracy theory, I really do, but this narrative that suggests Russian hackers broke into the DNC and the RNC, got the real scoop on our candidates, created multiple fake news sites, and then engaged in this elaborate psychological ploy to brainwash the American people, just borders on the ludicrous. I mean it’s delightful, it sounds like a John Grisham novel, but it is teetering on the edge of downright paranoid.
So when things are teetering on the edge of paranoia, I often look to our leaders, and to the Men in Black to sort things out. Instead of being the calm voice of reason, they are actually calling for general panic, hysteria, and Russian troll hunting. Ai yi yi.
As if that was not distressing enough, Barbara Boxer decided to just up and introduce a bill to eliminate the electoral college. Apparently she is not aware that See There’s This Thing Called the US Constitution… One does not simply pass a law and restructure the entire electoral system to suit one’s needs. That would require a constitutional amendment and ratification, a long and involved process. She needs to watch Schoolhouse Rock and start singing “I’m just a bill,” because that is how I learned these things. Since she gets paid so much more than I do, it would be nice if she would at least learn the lyrics.
Call me crazy, but I suspect our Russian trolls have just popped themselves some popcorn and are now kicking back in their parent’s basement watching the show. Why actually work when our own leaders insist on providing so much free entertainment?
atimetoshare.me said:
lol- good one.i loved Boris & Natasha too.
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Daria Kill said:
Russian trolls – you are cutting so close to the bone with me right now …
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"A" dad said:
Memi, this just in: The “Alt. Russians” did it! ; – )
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insanitybytes22 said:
LOL, yes indeed. You’ve been in my prayers today. Nice to hear from you.
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Rebecca LuElla Miller said:
Ah, Barbara Boxer. Don’t get me started. She’s been “my” senator for lo these many years but is retiring. Her replacement, alas, is as liberal as she but is one smart cookie, not the do-nothing politician Boxer has been most of her career. Kamala Harris might actually understand that the Electoral College needs a Constitutional Amendment to change it.
Becky
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Julie (aka Cookie) said:
Excellent Daaahling
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Wally Fry said:
It’s the Manchurian Candidate come to life!
Ok…I’m going back to the bunker. SoM and I are playing scrabble. He is killing me
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insanitybytes22 said:
Don’t eat too much spam and keep the ammo warm. 🙂
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Wally Fry said:
LOL
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Andy Oldham said:
Let’s get Nancy Palousy to straighten this out 😀
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newenglandsun said:
Her daughter is her spitting image. Both in looks (ugly) and in intelligence (non-existent).
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MJThompson said:
From Russia, with love: while have the USA believes friendly diplomacy accomplishes much more than hostile impasse, the CIA and FBI are waging war among themselves over rhetoric. Due to a MAJOR philosophical difference in their diametrically opposed methods of operation, they disagree.
The CIA is all about ‘intelligence’ (not to be confused with superior intellect). Their ‘intelligence’ is the gathering of information through rumors, speculation, and eves-dropping. They are the original ‘kiss and tell’ gang. The information collected is passed on for heads of state to scrutinize – innuendo replacing facts. This is the agency that convinced Bush that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
The FBI is all about analyzing hard facts. They will not pass information on to superiors unless and until THEIR scrutiny has determined the FACTS prove a crime has been committed. Director Comey has suspended the investigation into the Clinton emails until AFTER a new administration takes office, pressured by the present DOJ Lynch – who quite unprofessionally (if not illegally (met with Bill Clinton in his private jet) just before Comey retracted the reopening of his investigation.
The CIA Director has presented an ‘idea’ that many of the emails (1st made public by the accusations against Clinton’s mishandling of confidential communications) the latest, in OCTOBER 2016 — a month BEFORE the election. The ‘idea’ is that since THOSE emails became leaked to the public (get this intellectual reasoning) then Russia is the ’most probable’ hacker.
Yesterday, the FBI publicly disagreed with the CIA’s ‘idea’, saying there is ZERO evidence of ANY hacking of emails that had any effect on the election. There are NO facts to support any further investigation into the matter.
The CIA extrapolated the leaks and made them ‘hacks’. The cold war ended with the demise of the former Soviet Union. There may have been a time when THEY were a legitimate threat to America – not any longer. The Deal recently made with Iran to ‘slow’ its production of nuclear power is far more of a threat, but We the People can’t criticize that (at least for another 37 days).
Barbra Boxer had been one of two senators here in California since ’93 during which time she enjoyed the same number of successful ‘green’ policies as Hillary Clinton – both avowed globalists and progressives. She’ll be replaced by another Dem. (our ballot had ONLY Dems running for Senate). Good ole Cal untrue blue! I’m surprised they still tolerate me living among them.
Anyway, she wouldn’t recognize the Constitution if I hit over the head with it. To her, it is just another outdated deplorable document – like scripture – that is so antiquated it should be ignored and retired. That’s the ‘progressives’ platform, and they’re sticking to it. She wants popular vote to decide, but according to my math = Clinton supposedly received 48%; Trump = 46%. 48+46=94. That leaves 6% MORE that DID NOT vote for Clinton. In other words, 52% voted against her! How’s THAT ‘winning’ the popular vote?
Boy was THAT a ‘rabbit-hole’ – gotta run now, Boris is calling.
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newenglandsun said:
IB, the WaPo has posted an Editor’s note in one of their articles about the Russian hacking where they admit that the 200 sites they accused of being “Russian government funded” was actually an inaccurate list.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/russian-propaganda-effort-helped-spread-fake-news-during-election-experts-say/2016/11/24/793903b6-8a40-4ca9-b712-716af66098fe_story.html?utm_term=.8488878bd965
Essentially declaring themselves now a “fake news” website. They have also apologised prior to this week, openly, about the anti-Russian propaganda but they seem to have forgotten that that happened…
The real fake news is that there was a Russian hack. There was already one Republican faithless elector. The electors who won’t vote until they get a briefing sky-rockets and the number of those who are Republican remains at one. Hillary Clinton is posed to be destroyed by the electoral college in a landslide.
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insanitybytes22 said:
Thanks for that link. So WaPo falsely reported some fake news, accusing several websites of being Russian propaganda due to a hack that may or may not have even happened?
Clear as mud:-)
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newenglandsun said:
Definitely did not happen 🙂
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Citizen Tom said:
Reblogged this on Citizen Tom and commented:
The Democratic Party just now discovered Putin is not a nice man? Wonder how they ever got a clue?
For my readers: Check out insanitybytes22’s “theory” and share a good laugh with her. Then let your elected officials know what you thing about the electoral college.
If we don’t want the rest of our country to look like an inter-city neighborhood, then we need to stop crooked politicians from making an even bigger mess out of our Constitution. See => https://citizentom.com/2009/05/18/what-happened-to-our-constitution-part-1/
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insanitybytes22 said:
Thanks, Tom. Much appreciated.
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scatterwisdom said:
I think we need a clarification of current cybercrime lingo for the latest “Russians are coming” scare.
If you refer to the link, in my opinion, the correct lingo for the current Democrat fuzzy would be a combination of the descriptions. This would be “Hacking Hoax.”
What makes the hoax part folly is that the “hack hoax” revealed the “Democratic Party Hacks Hoaxing” their own party.
Kinda like they are rear ending themselves?
https://leapfrogservices.com/worm-virus-malware-phishing-spoofing-hacking-phreaking-spyware-whats-what-cybercrime-lingo-deciphered/
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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SLIMJIM said:
Using this logic we can be blaming the press for ending Nixon’s presidency…but no liberals would do that, would they?
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SandySays1 said:
Actually, the Russians are coming. There is good intelligence received through a major TV network they got from a panhandler on 5th Avenue that he received from a Weiner’s Facebook page that the Russians forced Obama to sign the Iranian deal, actually were responsible for authoring the Affordable Care Act, were dressed as Arabs at Benghazi, and secretly installed Hilary’s server in her home without her knowledge. If you contribute to Jill Stein’s recount effort, they’ll provide you with info on how the Russians cloned Trump from Hitler and Stalin’s DNA. Honest. If you believe those “facts” I have 100,000 acres of ocean front property in Kansas I’d love to sell you.
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