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General thoughts on Russia

We spy on them and they spy on us.  This time around they are trying something different.  Since we have insecure Facebook, Twitter and email around here, meaning anyone can post anything any time and no one asks questions, Russian troll farms created thousands of accounts.  People call them “fake” but there is no such thing.  A facebook account is a facebook account and lots of people lie about their name, location, age and gender to remain anonymous and secure.  For me, I only put my church address and phone number.

So these troll farms which used to be responsible for 85 billions spam emails a day, now took Kremlin money and went to work.  They posts pro-Trump and anti-Trump.  Pro-abortion and anti-abortion.  Pro-gun and anti-gun and pro-Hillary and anti-Hillary.  No one from America paid them to to do it and no one in America profited from it.  Trump did not win because the Russias posted facebook messages.  They posted as many for Trump as they did against Trump.

Recently it was found out that they used Pokemon Go.  Pokemon Go has gathering places where little beasts can be caught.  People can suggest places and pay money to have their business or church be a place.  The Russians picked every place where there was racial tension and had people gather there.  That caused tension with people gathering for no reason in downtown Chicago, for example.

Russia also used meet up sites and facebook meet ups to tell people about black lives matter meetings and white supremacy meetings, when there were no such meetings.  They would call local radio and TV stations and have reporters go out to a white supremacy gathering, when there was none.  People would hear of it, believe that they missed an announcement and a gathering was created.  No American paid them to do this and no American profited from it.

No one from America colluded with the Russians.  Our political infighting is exactly what Putin wants.  He wants destabilized democracies.  He wants destabilized governments.  He wants us to hate each other instead of hating him.

So the progressive left and idiot right are falling right into Russian hands with a special prosecutor and investigations and all the insane news reports about Russia and Trump.  Trump is as much a victim as the rest.  Hillary did not lose because of Russia, she lost because of Hillary.  So calm down, back off and get back to the business of America….and stop hating each other

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