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originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
The "establishment" has been rocked...and they don't like it.
Not one bit!!
originally posted by: JacKatMtn
a reply to: seasonal
What state? Barry is staying in DC.... last I looked they don't rate a senate seat..
Perhaps her life mission is to go down as the most hated individual to ever hold public office.
Nothing was more to be desired than that every practicable obstacle should be opposed to cabal, intrigue, and corruption.
These most deadly adversaries of republican government might naturally have been expected to make their approaches from more than one quarter, but chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils.
How could they better gratify this, than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union?
But the convention have guarded against all danger of this sort, with the most provident and judicious attention.
They have not made the appointment of the President to depend on any preexisting bodies of men, who might be tampered with beforehand to prostitute their votes; but they have referred it in the first instance to an immediate act of the people of America, to be exerted in the choice of persons for the temporary and sole purpose of making the appointment. And they have excluded from eligibility to this trust, all those who from situation might be suspected of too great devotion to the President in office. No senator, representative, or other person holding a place of trust or profit under the United States, can be of the numbers of the electors. Thus without corrupting the body of the people, the immediate agents in the election will at least enter upon the task free from any sinister bias. Their transient existence, and their detached situation, already taken notice of, afford a satisfactory prospect of their continuing so, to the conclusion of it. The business of corruption, when it is to embrace so considerable a number of men, requires time as well as means. Nor would it be found easy suddenly to embark them, dispersed as they would be over thirteen States, in any combinations founded upon motives, which though they could not properly be denominated corrupt, might yet be of a nature to mislead them from their duty.
originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
The "establishment" has been rocked...and they don't like it.
Not one bit!!
originally posted by: rickymouse
Their stuff is not what got Trump elected, it was Hillary's past actions that made her lose. Why would anyone think that this woman who has been brought in front of congress for serious mistakes she made in her job and her ignoring the Benghazi concerns would win? Screwing up as president is not a good thing.
U.S. intelligence agencies have also received reports that Page met with another top Putin aide while in Moscow — Igor Diveykin. A former Russian security official, Diveykin now serves as deputy chief for internal policy and is believed by U.S. officials to have responsibility for intelligence collected by Russian agencies about the U.S. election, the Western intelligence source said.
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
Perhaps her life mission is to go down as the most hated individual to ever hold public office.
originally posted by: Indigo5
originally posted by: rickymouse
Their stuff is not what got Trump elected, it was Hillary's past actions that made her lose. Why would anyone think that this woman who has been brought in front of congress for serious mistakes she made in her job and her ignoring the Benghazi concerns would win? Screwing up as president is not a good thing.
Hillary is over...You miss the bigger picture.
There is no scenario under which she will ever be President.
There are plausible scenarios where Trump will not be.
The CIA stated with the most certain language they ever state anything...that Putin and Russia conducted a cyber-hacking campaign to benefit Donald Trump and help him get elected.
Things like Paul Manafort's Infamous political ties and Russia dealings...
Or Trump advisor Carter page?..Went to Russia in July and explicitly offered to lift US Sanctions on Russia if Trump was elected and met with Igor Diveykin..
U.S. intelligence agencies have also received reports that Page met with another top Putin aide while in Moscow — Igor Diveykin. A former Russian security official, Diveykin now serves as deputy chief for internal policy and is believed by U.S. officials to have responsibility for intelligence collected by Russian agencies about the U.S. election, the Western intelligence source said.
www.yahoo.com...
There is also Trumps trip to Russia for the Miss USA pageant...Where he was strongly anti-Russia before the trip and strongly pro-Russia afterwards. There are a dozen different ways he could have been co-opted while there...
Hillary will never be President. If the CIA and/or FBI step in and directly provide evidence that Trump collaborated in the DNC hack...or has been otherwise colluding with Russian agents or representatives to aid in his election, made promises of lifting the US sanctions in trade for help etc....he could go to jail, and possible for "high crimes" or "treason"...but he certainly would not be President. It would likely go to Pence via the electoral college.
That is what we should be watching for...How much the CIA will investigate and share over the next couple weeks...Whether the FBI obtained a FISA Warrant to look at Trump and Trump aides. (Some sites have claimed they got one..unnamed sources..so could be BS)
It's not a left right thing or a Hillary v Trump thing...If it goes south, Pence is next up. I know it's easier in the left v right paradigm.
originally posted by: [post=21640104]rickymouse
Our government does lots of that cyber stuff, they even brag they are the best in the world. How do you think they know that it came from Russia, they probably hack a lot of their stuff. We also listened into our allies phone calls until we got caught, now we got better at covering our tracks.
originally posted by: Indigo5
originally posted by: [post=21640104]rickymouse
Our government does lots of that cyber stuff, they even brag they are the best in the world. How do you think they know that it came from Russia, they probably hack a lot of their stuff. We also listened into our allies phone calls until we got caught, now we got better at covering our tracks.
This is BS. Yes...Our government does "a lot of cyber stuff" and a lot of spying, but engaging in intelligence gathering and conducting a full, active cyber campaign to influence an election is unprecedented.
originally posted by: Indigo5
originally posted by: [post=21640104]rickymouse
Our government does lots of that cyber stuff, they even brag they are the best in the world. How do you think they know that it came from Russia, they probably hack a lot of their stuff. We also listened into our allies phone calls until we got caught, now we got better at covering our tracks.
This is BS. Yes...Our government does "a lot of cyber stuff" and a lot of spying, but engaging in intelligence gathering and conducting a full, active cyber campaign to influence an election is unprecedented.
originally posted by: Indigo5
a reply to: rickymouse
YES - espionage is fair game. A foreign intelligence service getting the internal political emails of a major political party of a major foreign adversary? FAIR GAME...Everyone does it.
BUT WEAPONIZING that INTEL and using it to influence an election? That's a first and out of bounds.
That is what I have heard several commentators in the Espionage racket repeatedly state. X-CIA heads and X-KGB..both equally shocked at what Russia did.
Electors Against Trump Are Faithful Not Faithless It's their obligation to the Constitution and the country