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[JSt0rm]

You proved that you have a day job other than being a Russian agent. You did not prove that you are not a Russian agent.

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect you to provide video + audio of every hour you have ever lived, which you have not done.

I would accept that level from anyone.

 

[CZroe]

These are actual examples of the Russian troll posts on Facebook.

Yes, this is your so-called "election hacking" that touched off all the unfounded paranoia. So sorry to disappoint.

 

[SMOGZINN]

These are actual examples of the Russian troll posts on Facebook.

Yes, this is your so-called "election hacking" that touched off all the unfounded paranoia. So sorry to disappoint.

No, this is part of the propaganda campaign. Their attack was multi-approached and included several different types of misinformation campaigns as well as actual hacking of electronic voting systems, voter registration systems, and candidates private servers, and this has been made clear by several official sources.

 

[VRAMdemon]

You people do realize that if this lawsuit succeeded, it would be viewed as precedent setting, Fox News and all right wing talk radio would basically be shut down overnight.

This basically would open up any "news" organization whose alleged disparaging remarks about someone, resulting in them being hounded by social media opened up to a multi million dollar law suit. Given that riling up the masses against some random "liberal" is the bread and butter of Trump "news writers" and the right wing media, be careful where you throw those stones.

 

[CZroe]

No, this is part of the propaganda campaign. Their attack was multi-approached and included several different types of misinformation campaigns as well as actual hacking of electronic voting systems, voter registration systems, and candidates private servers, and this has been made clear by several official sources.

They had Hillary Clinton's emails from before the election and they hacked the DNC emails too, but no one found any evidence of them successfully hacking electronic voting systems. The rest of the hysteria was set off by the debunked Steele Dossier and the resulting FISA warrants/investigations.

When people discuss the "election hacking" as if it was something more than we were all aware of, they are talking about the social media trolling efforts which were aimed more at sowing divisions than helping any one candidate. They assume they are talking about something more due to the years-long investigations, charges, and follow-ups prompted by the FISA warrant findings when the FISA warrants themselves were, well, unwarranted in light of the debunked dossier. Furthermore, the charges were not related to election hacking and the investigation was more about collusion than anything else.

Glad I could clear this up.

 

[SMOGZINN]

They had Hillary Clinton's emails from before the election and they hacked the DNC emails too, but no one found any evidence of them successfully hacking electronic voting systems. The rest of the hysteria was set off by the debunked Steele Dossier and the resulting FISA warrants/investigations.

From NPR

The Connecticut Secretary of State's office said that DHS confirmed Russian hackers tried to break into the state's online voter registration system last year but did not succeed. A spokesman for the office said its information technology department detected and blocked the attempted intrusion but did not know who was probing the system.

Funny how nearly everything in that debunked Steele Dossier turns out to be true.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

They had Hillary Clinton's emails from before the election and they hacked the DNC emails too, but no one found any evidence of them successfully hacking electronic voting systems. The rest of the hysteria was set off by the debunked Steele Dossier and the resulting FISA warrants/investigations.

When people discuss the "election hacking" as if it was something more than we were all aware of, they are talking about the social media trolling efforts which were aimed more at sowing divisions than helping any one candidate. They assume they are talking about something more due to the years-long investigations, charges, and follow-ups prompted by the FISA warrant findings when the FISA warrants themselves were, well, unwarranted in light of the debunked dossier. Furthermore, the charges were not related to election hacking and the investigation was more about collusion than anything else.

Glad I could clear this up.

No words required:

 

[KMFJD]

The rest of the hysteria was set off by the debunked Steele Dossier and the resulting FISA warrants/investigations.


Glad I could clear this up.

lolwut? Seems quite a bit of it is turning out to be true

 

[soundforbjt]

lolwut? Seems quite a bit of it is turning out to be true

The only "debunked" parts I can recall is Cohen going to Prague and Carter Page's visit to Moscow. That leaves a lot of it still on the table.

 

[jackstar7]

the debunked Steele Dossier

BEWARE OF SHARP OBJECTS!

They probably won't pierce your bubble, but I just don't think you should be handling sharp objects.

 

[Ichinisan]

They had Hillary Clinton's emails from before the election and they hacked the DNC emails too, but no one found any evidence of them successfully hacking electronic voting systems. The rest of the hysteria was set off by the debunked Steele Dossier and the resulting FISA warrants/investigations.

From NPR

The Connecticut Secretary of State's office said that DHS confirmed Russian hackers tried to break into the state's online voter registration system last year but did not succeed. A spokesman for the office said its information technology department detected and blocked the attempted intrusion but did not know who was probing the system.

"tried"
"did not succeed"

I would be quite surprised if an antagonistic nation state wasn't always looking and trying to do that. What does it have to do with the dossier?

Funny how nearly everything in that debunked Steele Dossier turns out to be true.

Was that in the dossier at all?

Are you saying the supposed "tape" of Russian hookers peeing with Trump turned out to be true?

 

[soundforbjt]

Are you saying the supposed "tape" of Russian hookers peeing with Trump turned out to be true?

Don't know yet, Russia/ Putin has it if it exists.

 

[HurleyBird]

Lawsuit against WaPo is happening after all.

 

[Perknose]

Lawsuit against WaPo is happening after all.

This is the crap you are drawn to on the web?

Trump is a treasonous crook who is burning down our democracy and the rule of law and you're posting some third rate, right wing YouTube blowhard going on and on about the piteous plight of some teen-age twerp in a Trump hat? Your particular enthusiasms are very revealing.

 

[brycejones]

Lawsuit against WaPo is happening after all.

cool story bro

 

[glenn1]

This is the crap you are drawn to on the web?

Trump is a treasonous crook who is burning down our democracy and the rule of law and you're posting some third rate, right wing YouTube blowhard going on and on about the piteous plight of some teen-age twerp in a Trump hat? Your particular enthusiasms are very revealing.

Reported for personal attack.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Reported for personal attack.

plz explain how that is a personal attack? He was commenting on the substance of what was posted and not the poster!!

 

[Corn]

Reported for personal attack.

Yep.

 

[Victorian Gray]

lol

 

[Corn]

plz explain how that is a personal attack? He was commenting on the substance of what was posted and not the poster!!

So the first and last sentences in that post are not personal attacks? These have nothing to do with the substance of the post but call out the poster specifically.

 

[JEDIYoda]

So the first and last sentences in that post are not personal attacks? These have nothing to do with the substance of the post but call out the poster specifically.

How? He is commenting on the substance.....
DFor certain the last sentence is NOT a personal attack! An observation is being made!!

 

[balloonshark]

And they say we're the snowflakes. LMFAO!

 

[brycejones]

And they say we're the snowflakes. LMFAO!

The irony

 

[ivwshane]

And they say we're the snowflakes. LMFAO!

Look at his posting history. He’s one of those posters that complains about others because they treat him exactly like he treats others.

 

[woolfe9998]

Point of clarification regarding the procedural posture of that lawsuit, in case anyone cares. The lawsuit was never truly dismissed to start out with. WaPo's attorneys had filed a "demurrer," which is a facial challenge to the allegations in the complaint. This type of motion involves no submitted evidence. A demurrer basically says, even if everything in the complaint is true, there is no legal cause of action. When demurrers are granted, in virtually every case, the plaintiff is permitted to amend the complaint (it's called dismissed with leave to amend), after which there could be a second demurrer, a third, and so on.

The judge here is permitting the case to go forward only in regard to three particular statements in the WaPo coverage. We'll find out later after discovery when WaPo will undoubtedly file a motion for summary judgment if the case will be allowed to go to a jury.

A plaintiff merely getting past the pleading stage and being allowed to pursue discovery is pretty meaningless. There are very few cases where it doesn't happen.