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Orrin Hatch? I'm as outraged

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 18 May 2017 09:48:00 +0000

In reply to So how far down the line of

Orrin Hatch? I'm as outraged by the chuckling over hacking the DNC the day after. How complicit are these bastards in all this? Sounds like a script from the Sopranos, not the Speaker of the House.

McCarthy: The Russians hacked the DNC and got the opp research that they had on Trump.
McCarthy: laughs
[Crosstalk]
Ryan: The Russian’s hacked the DNC…
McHenry: …to get oppo…
Ryan: …on Trump and like delivered it to…to who?
[Unintelligible]
McCarthy: There’s…there’s two people, I think, Putin pays: Rohrabacher and
Trump…[laughter]…swear to God.
Ryan: This is an off the record…[laughter]…NO LEAKS…[laughter]…alright?!
[Laughter]
Ryan: This is how we know we’re a real family here.
Scalise: That’s how you know that we’re tight.
[Laughter]
Ryan: What’s said in the family stays in the family.

But if they find actual machine/data rigging, all hell could *really* break loose.

Roger Stone had this to say a year ago, and he's the master of dirty tricks (his whole op-ed is worth reading):

Here’s the recipe now:

(1) Publish a poll contrived to suggest the result you are going to bring about.

(2) Manipulate the machines to bring about precisely your desired outcome.

Since all the polls are averaged and you're manipulating the daily spin, yeah, just get it close enough so people will believe it. It doesn't even have to be close. Trump was way down in several states that flipped - but people just assume he had his pulse on the current of submerged anger.

And Obama rather assured us that the machines and actual voting data were safe. Of course he had to say that, just to keep voters voting and stop the scandal Trump was promoting by claiming it's all rigged.

So what if Mueller finds evidence of actual vote theft in all these investigations?

So how far down the line of

Obey — Thu, 18 May 2017 09:24:12 +0000

In reply to Excellent - will make Ryan's

So how far down the line of succession do we have to go? Is this going to be like Designated Survivor except with Ben Carson in the role of Kiefer Sutherland?

Excellent - will make Ryan's

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 18 May 2017 09:15:19 +0000

In reply to Read the full transcript. It

Excellent - will make Ryan's place in line of succession difficult to justify staying silent while knowing POTUS was on the take (same as Pence's, considering his role in firing Comey/obstructing justice and knowingly hiring a compromised national security chief under investigation )