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Dec 12 2020 04:11pm
Quote (InsaneBobb @ Dec 12 2020 04:04pm)
Excuse me? I said no intelligence agency performed forensic analysis of the DNC servers. That is 100% factually accurate. So the only analysis was performed by private companies under the direct employment of the DNC. So, looking at it from a third party perspective, what I see is that Clapper, a career liar said that HE had concluded based on the debunked Steel Dossier (paid for by the DNC) and the conclusions of CrowdStrike, a private company paid by the DNC that the Wikileaks dumps were the result of a Russian hack. Okay, so, what we have here is no direct access to the actual evidence by any intelligence agency. All of the DNC dumps (as well as the Clinton emails) were vetted and confirmed legitimate. Assange said it was NOT Russians.

So your claim is that you believe "US Intelligence". But it's not "US Intelligence" is it? It's James Clapper. The guy who perjured himself in front of Congress by claiming the NSA does not collect data on American citizens, the guy who advised the Bush Administration of the dire threat of WMDs in Iraq, and not "Trump's Intelligence Agency" but a guy who resigned in November 2016. Who gives a flying fuck what he "concluded"? His testimony was worth less than nothing.

And I never once said anything about "lol you believe American intelligence agencies". Take your strawman and sit on it. I indirectly said you're a fucking idiot for believing Clapper, and trying to use his personal conclusions as some kind of validating source for your tinfoil hattery.

The level of stupid you reach here, yet you don't have any concerns whatsoever about proprietary machines from a foreign entity being used to vote and tabulate votes in the US election. You're a real work of art.


You said they never verified it, which allows you to now weasel your way out of anything they did. Here where words have meanings the CIA looking at the presented evidence and coming to their own conclusion is a verification.

It's really obvious what you're doing dude. You started with the conclusion that it's all bullshit, didn't follow for several years, and now that you have to actually look into the issue you're working backwards to prove your conclusion.
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Dec 12 2020 04:45pm
Quote (Thor123422 @ 12 Dec 2020 14:11)
You said they never verified it, which allows you to now weasel your way out of anything they did. Here where words have meanings the CIA looking at the presented evidence and coming to their own conclusion is a verification.

It's really obvious what you're doing dude. You started with the conclusion that it's all bullshit, didn't follow for several years, and now that you have to actually look into the issue you're working backwards to prove your conclusion.


I didn't start with any conclusion. I read the report, and I watched the hearings. The only reason the "Intelligence Community" line was so overused is because Clapper was the former director of national intelligence. Which is a big fat so what. Again, this is a man who's list of lies is longer than your... ego. There's no weaseling here. He indicated that they had reason to believe there was collusion. When pressed, he stated very clearly in March 2017 that they had "No evidence." When pressed, under oath, he verified, "No evidence." From that point forward, his story did not change. So, you claim you've "followed for years" but you can't site any evidence that "the intelligence agencies" ever had, found, or analyzed.

So to recap, the only actual "evidence" are claims made by companies on the DNC payroll and claims in a completely debunked dossier (paid for by the DNC), and claims by a career liar (who ironically got a job at CNN after resigning). You say I didn't follow this, but how could I (or anyone) NOT follow it? It's all there was to watch for 3 years. "What new bullshit are they going to claim today?"

Now, Dominion Voting Systems is a foreign entity, and somehow this foreign entity's proprietary voting machines, which have been demonstrated to be incredibly insecure, ended up being used in US elections. How does that not open the door to foreign interference in US elections? Until you give a real answer here, I'm going to continue repeating it. This is real, it's fact, and there's none of your bullshit straw grasping. Don't care about Trump, or Biden, or any of that. Just explain to me how these specific machines are NOT a threat to the integrity of our elections, and the sovereignty of our nation.
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Dec 12 2020 06:14pm
Quote (bogie160 @ Dec 12 2020 03:37pm)
While the fact that the DNC was hacked is an indictment on the competence of their IT security (or lack thereof), it has nothing to do with the central claim of the Russiagate conspiracy theory, that the Trump campaign was actively in cahoots with Russian operatives to steal data and otherwise rig an election victory for Donald Trump. Alternatively, that Russia somehow had compromat on Donald Trump and he was a creature of the Kremlin. These allegations were spread by various news outlets (e.g. the New York Times, MSNBC, CNN), completely without evidence, and they've been thoroughly discredited.


The guy was denying the fact that Russia interfered in our election, so I was correcting the record. They hacked the DNC, and released the material.

It's actually not true that it's unrelated to the central claim of Russiagate, because the hacked material was disseminated strategically by Wikileaks, and Trump officials were communicating with Wikileaks throughout the campaign. It's very likely that Trump spoke to Roger Stone about Wikileaks during the campaign. So, essentially that makes these officials at least a small part of the conspiracy.

Yes, I know, media bad. Cool story bro.
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Dec 12 2020 06:30pm
Quote (Mangix @ Dec 12 2020 01:22pm)
The absolute butthurt over Russia from right wingers is practically a new energy source at this point.

I wouldn't be surprised if Ice and Thor have a response saved in their profile by this point, given this is like the 60th time in the last month someone has tried this line thinking it has any merit.


It's a really good example of how the right-wing lives in a completely upside-down world. There's so much incriminating behavior by Trump and his associates surrounding the investigation... including Trump pursuing a lucrative real estate deal in Moscow during the campaign, trying to obstruct the investigation, and the freaking campaign chairman sharing internal campaign polling data with a Russian intelligence operative. And they still believe the investigation was unwarranted, and Trump was severely wronged by it. It's mind-boggling.
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Dec 12 2020 06:41pm
Quote (IceMage @ 12 Dec 2020 16:14)
The guy was denying the fact that Russia interfered in our election, so I was correcting the record. They hacked the DNC, and released the material.

It's actually not true that it's unrelated to the central claim of Russiagate, because the hacked material was disseminated strategically by Wikileaks, and Trump officials were communicating with Wikileaks throughout the campaign. It's very likely that Trump spoke to Roger Stone about Wikileaks during the campaign. So, essentially that makes these officials at least a small part of the conspiracy.

Yes, I know, media bad. Cool story bro.


Please answer a few questions for me:
1. What is the proof that Russia "hacked the DNC"? Clapper testified under oath that the intelligence community had no evidence that he'd seen. The only evidence given is a discredited dossier and a company paid by the DNC. These are not credible sources. Assange insisted and continues to insist his source was not from Russia.
2. Let's assume you magic up some proof that Russia "hacked the dnc" when Mueller failed to do so in 3 years. So what? How is that interference in the US election? The wikileaks dumps (DNC and Clinton emails both) were all vetted true. Telling the truth about candidates is not "interfering". There's no fraudulent ballots, no tampering, nothing. Is your claim that telling the truth about politicians, or learning about the truth of politicians from their own communications is bad? Do you not believe that voters should be kept informed of the intentions of the people they're electing?
3. What "conspiracy"? Like, seriously, what conspiracy? If the DNC and Clinton don't want to get caught being corrupt garbage, maybe they should try not being corrupt garbage.

Meanwhile...

Dominion Voting Systems is a foreign entity, and somehow this foreign entity's proprietary voting machines, which have been demonstrated to be incredibly insecure, ended up being used in US elections. How does that not open the door to foreign interference in US elections? Until you give a real answer here, I'm going to continue repeating it. This is real, it's fact, and there's none of your bullshit straw grasping. Don't care about Trump, or Clinton, or Biden, or any of that. Just explain to me how these specific machines are NOT a threat to the integrity of our elections, and the sovereignty of our nation.
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Dec 12 2020 07:12pm
https://twitter.com/AZGOP/status/1336186861891452929?s=19

This passes for a political party in a western country?
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Dec 12 2020 11:40pm
Quote (IceMage @ Dec 12 2020 07:14pm)
The guy was denying the fact that Russia interfered in our election, so I was correcting the record. They hacked the DNC, and released the material.

It's actually not true that it's unrelated to the central claim of Russiagate, because the hacked material was disseminated strategically by Wikileaks, and Trump officials were communicating with Wikileaks throughout the campaign. It's very likely that Trump spoke to Roger Stone about Wikileaks during the campaign. So, essentially that makes these officials at least a small part of the conspiracy.

Yes, I know, media bad. Cool story bro.


While I know it's fashionable to pretend Wikileaks is an arm of Russian intelligence, it's not true, and certainly wasn't the perception back at a time where they were mostly famous for publishing whistleblowers.
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Dec 13 2020 12:13am
Quote (bogie160 @ 13 Dec 2020 00:40)
While I know it's fashionable to pretend Wikileaks is an arm of Russian intelligence, it's not true, and certainly wasn't the perception back at a time where they were mostly famous for publishing whistleblowers.

according to that anti-American racist wannabe thug ‘icepeon’ whistleblowers like Snowden and Assange who reveal purposeful government harm against its citizens are, but those who make up unconfirmed second-hand stories are to be believed above everything else in the universe

This post was edited by excellence on Dec 13 2020 12:14am
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Dec 14 2020 04:29pm
While the electoral college votes are confirming the obvious...


https://twitter.com/RepPaulMitchell/status/1338599898141356034

A GOP Congressman leaving the party. An interesting letter, even though the guy voted for Trump in 2020 and any rational person could've predicted this outcome if Trump lost.
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Dec 14 2020 04:38pm
Quote (IceMage @ Dec 14 2020 04:29pm)
While the electoral college votes are confirming the obvious...


https://twitter.com/RepPaulMitchell/status/1338599898141356034

A GOP Congressman leaving the party. An interesting letter, even though the guy voted for Trump in 2020 and any rational person could've predicted this outcome if Trump lost.


Almost like he's been saying he would do this since 2015 if he lost either election
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