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<blockquote data-quote="Frank Underwood" data-source="post: 111453" data-attributes="member: 35">I was being sarcastic when I said I don&#039;t care about him because that&#039;s what Snarky accused me of.&nbsp; Of course I care about the damage he&#039;s inflicting.How would treason charges against Trump diminish my criticisms of the DNC?&nbsp; No matter what happens to Trump, the DNC was still caught rigging the primaries, admitted in court that they aren&#039;t required to choose their nominee democratically, and even used the media to legitimize Trump because they thought he would be the easiest to beat.It&#039;s not a coincidence that MSNBC showed Trump&#039;s empty podium more than a packed Bernie Sanders rally.&nbsp; Trump could be found guilty of colluding with Putin and carted off to prison in an orange jumpsuit, and it wouldn&#039;t change any of that.&nbsp; The DNC&#039;s pied piper strategy remains a huge miscalculation which helped give us Trump.&nbsp; Having won the popular vote by three million votes, yet loosing the rust belt by 77,744 votes suggests to me that poor campaign strategies had more to do with Hillary&#039;s loss than Russian interference.Even Chuck Schumer knew she was in trouble, which is why he said they would pick up two moderate Republicans for every blue collar Democrat they lost.&nbsp; That also explains her choosing a center-right moderate like Tim Kane as her running mate.&nbsp; It was all just a big middle finger to the progressives that make up the Democratic base.&nbsp; Many Dems in Congress continue giving that middle finger by capitulating to Trump, and they&#039;re already going after progressive primary challengers.&nbsp; This is a corporate party, not an opposition party.That thread was meant to tone down the hysteria and hyperbole by exposing how much was spent on ads compared to total revenue for sites like Facebook and Google.&nbsp; It also mentioned how over half of those ads were released after the election, and how some were even anti-Trump.&nbsp; Mark Penn was a chief strategist on presidential campaigns for both Bill and Hillary Clinton, and even he explained why this wasn&#039;t a &quot;carefully targeted campaign to move voters.&quot;&nbsp; As he put it, you can&#039;t buy the presidency for $100,000.I&#039;ve also seen the ads, which are your run of the mill propaganda about the military not supporting Hillary, how she stood for satan, etc.&nbsp; Ted Cruz put out a sleazy campaign ad, which is a jingle about how his opponent is going to take guns away from Texans, wants open borders, etc.&nbsp; Propaganda is disingenuous crap, but why is it only a big deal when it comes from outside the United States?&nbsp; You don&#039;t see indictments of political campaigns who use the same tactics, even though they have more money and target more people. Of course, I also included in that thread how journalists were being fired for running with stories regarding Russia-gate that turned out to be false.But yes, troll farms and companies like Cambridge Analytica should be stopped.&nbsp; That doesn&#039;t mean Facebook is innocent in all of this, though.&nbsp; Edward Snowden referred to Facebook as a surveillance company, and said &quot;Facebook makes their money by exploiting and selling intimate details about the private lives of millions, far beyond the scant details you voluntarily post. They are not victims. They are accomplices.&quot;&nbsp; Facebook may have suspended Cambridge Analytica, but they&#039;re no less complicit in exploiting their users.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Frank Underwood, post: 111453, member: 35"] I was being sarcastic when I said I don't care about him because that's what Snarky accused me of. Of course I care about the damage he's inflicting. How would treason charges against Trump diminish my criticisms of the DNC? No matter what happens to Trump, the DNC was still caught rigging the primaries, admitted in court that they aren't required to choose their nominee democratically, and even used the media to legitimize Trump because they thought he would be the easiest to beat. It's not a coincidence that MSNBC showed Trump's empty podium more than a packed Bernie Sanders rally. Trump could be found guilty of colluding with Putin and carted off to prison in an orange jumpsuit, and it wouldn't change any of that. The DNC's pied piper strategy remains a huge miscalculation which helped give us Trump. Having won the popular vote by three million votes, yet loosing the rust belt by 77,744 votes suggests to me that poor campaign strategies had more to do with Hillary's loss than Russian interference. Even Chuck Schumer knew she was in trouble, which is why he said they would pick up two moderate Republicans for every blue collar Democrat they lost. That also explains her choosing a center-right moderate like Tim Kane as her running mate. It was all just a big middle finger to the progressives that make up the Democratic base. Many Dems in Congress continue giving that middle finger by capitulating to Trump, and they're already going after progressive primary challengers. This is a corporate party, not an opposition party. That thread was meant to tone down the hysteria and hyperbole by exposing how much was spent on ads compared to total revenue for sites like Facebook and Google. It also mentioned how over half of those ads were released [I]after[/I] the election, and how some were even anti-Trump. Mark Penn was a chief strategist on presidential campaigns for both Bill and Hillary Clinton, and even he explained why this wasn't a "carefully targeted campaign to move voters." As he put it, you can't buy the presidency for $100,000. I've also seen the ads, which are your run of the mill propaganda about the military not supporting Hillary, how she stood for satan, etc. Ted Cruz put out a sleazy campaign ad, which is a jingle about how his opponent is going to take guns away from Texans, wants open borders, etc. Propaganda is disingenuous crap, but why is it only a big deal when it comes from outside the United States? You don't see indictments of political campaigns who use the same tactics, even though they have more money and target more people. Of course, I also included in that thread how journalists were being fired for running with stories regarding Russia-gate that turned out to be false. But yes, troll farms and companies like Cambridge Analytica should be stopped. That doesn't mean Facebook is innocent in all of this, though. Edward Snowden referred to Facebook as a surveillance company, and said "Facebook makes their money by exploiting and selling intimate details about the private lives of millions, far beyond the scant details you voluntarily post. They are not victims. They are accomplices." Facebook may have suspended Cambridge Analytica, but they're no less complicit in exploiting their users. [/QUOTE]

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