Let me make something clear before this thread goes any further…
In many ways, The “Left” has become as screwed up as the “Right”… as more and more of our Political Discourse is dominated by the extremes…with everyone yelling that they are right (correct)…and the other side is the embodiment of pure evil.
Sorry, allow me to rephrase. The argument that it’s POSSIBLE Russia didn’t influence the election because the US IC has made mistakes in the past or because it’s POSSIBLE to spoof a trail, doesn’t come close to outweighing the certainty we’ve seen out of Congress, every US acronym agency, and nearly all of the main European ICs.
Constantly is probably too strong a word. But even if we accept it, politicians on opposite sides of the aisle generally do not ‘lie and support for purely political purposes’ the exact same bill. Thus, the fact that this bill had the support of 98 senators (representing both parties, obviously) does serious damage to your ‘nothing but craven business as usual’ argument.
You need to look at Frank Luntz latest Town Hall with Trump Supporters. (It’s on-line).
The Wish/Confirmation Bias when it comes to Trump…and all they are willing to overlook with Trump (that would have had Obama hung in effigy)…was quite frankly, chilling…and borders on religious fervor.
A digital footprint is impossible to fully spoof with zero trace unless you’re physically in the location you’re spoofing. If this is contrary to what you’ve read on Breitbart, I hate to be the bearer of bad news.
They don’t cut through the validity. They raise questions. If you’re of the opinion that both parties (including the ones calling the Trump/Russia shit a witch hunt) came to the conclusion that Russia fucked around with our election without asking questions of the professionals, my money is on the “you’re wrong” side.
If they hacked a govt network seamlessly, you wouldn’t know the hack existed. Schrodinger’s hack.
But on the other side Michael Tracy a Young Turks reporter has been covering town halls with democrats across the country. The number one issue repeatedly brought up is about RUSSIA
Politicians are in the business of getting votes, not chasing truth.
The first, and most important thing, of developing any type of security software/code, is first reverse engineering it in case it’s used against you. That’s security software 101. Also, with a full govt’s power behind the digging, even the CIA can’t put up a 100% spoof without being in the physical location of where you’re spoofing from.
As a side note, even if a hack was spoofed and it somehow got past dozens of acronym agencies with near unlimited resources, it still means a hack took place. Which means, best case, SOMEONE fucked around with our election. I’d be over the moon if the culprit wasn’t Russia, and was instead someone else, but at the end of the day it had to be someone.