Also, just fyi

[Keith Davis]

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> On Jan 6, 2019, at 4:10 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The US President is far worse than "a clown", I suggest, to a man who
> believes in the right words used in the right way. (But it may be just a
> Plist throwaway word although I remember when I was judged for the same
> tossed-off verbiage).
> 
> I will send more on Russian interference in the US election of 2016, the
> best work done on it, when I get it together but perhaps the case can
> be made with simple logic.
> 
> Tens of millions, maybe a hundred million Americans were reached, many
> 'influenced' by actions that the Russian hackers did on Facebook, on
> twitter in 2016.
> One hacker trick was to go onto Facebook and schedule a Trump rally, place
> and time, and others would 'join' and build and spread the enthusiasm and
> PRESTO, there would be that rally, with the bot that started it now even
> known about. Who can measure the effect in solidifying minds and bringing
> out the vote?
> 
> (In my state, a group movement to drive a polluting multinational out of
> the County
> rose to thousands faster than I can read and at meetings and rallies,
> almost no one knows who started the group. Natural leaders emerge and
> continue)
> 
> Couple the above with the fact that Trump won with fewer than 100,000 votes
> out of three states, three bot-targeted states. Donald Trump will be
> president thanks to 80,000 people in three states---Wa Po.
> 
> We won't ever know what the Russians made happen at the US polls---and I
> did not even go into anti-Hillary efforts by the Russians, which might have
> kept the low turnout even lower.
> 
> To be so dismissive of the possible Russian effects on these United States,
> leads me to distrust many "political" judgments about the US of those who
> are.
> 
> As TRP said of the guy who argued in that NYC rag that he was J.D.
> Salinger, "I didn't know of this newspaper but we need all the news we can
> get. [Fed his jab at
> the NYT's "All the news that's fit to print" [see *Anniversaries *as
> counter-exemplum] ..."Keep Trying", he urged.
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