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question everything

(48,799 posts)
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 11:22 AM Dec 2016

Drip, drip, drip

Immediately after the elections, a local commentator - not necessarily a Democrat - said how all the hacked emails from Podesta released every day just added to questions about the campaign. It was like a drip, drip, drip she said.

Last week, on Smerconish, Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig used the same term.

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Ace Rothstein

(3,299 posts)
3. You are confusing two different things.
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 12:44 PM
Dec 2016

The drip, drip, drip were the hacked emails that Wikileaks released. The Clinton campaign wanted the emails under investigation released. Two different sets of emails.

 

baldguy

(36,649 posts)
4. Oh, yeah, right. Gucifer and Gucifer 2.0 had the exact same targets, the exact same objectives,
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 01:15 PM
Dec 2016

had the exact same tactics, and used the exact same methods for disseminating their ill-gotten information.

So, logically, that means they had nothing to do with one another.

It'd un-fucking-believable the lengths some will go to lay blame on the victim.

Ace Rothstein

(3,299 posts)
5. You're still doing it, two things that have nothing to do with each other.
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 03:04 PM
Dec 2016

Issue #1 was the private email server. This was not hacked but was investigated by the FBI.

Issue #2 was the DNC email hack. These are the emails that were released.

You've been confused about this for a few weeks but refuse to listen to what people are telling you.

 

baldguy

(36,649 posts)
6. I'm sure Donald Trump & Vladimir Putin are happy to have you continue to believe that.
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 03:36 PM
Dec 2016

I guess it'll never change for people that have grown used to a steady diet of RW propaganda. The rest of us realized a long time ago they were just serving nothing but re-warmed horseshit.

But, sure. You keep eating that RW horseshit.

Ace Rothstein

(3,299 posts)
7. You keep on going on not knowing what you're talking about.
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 03:40 PM
Dec 2016

I'll never understand why people want to remain ignorant. It is very Republican-like.

 

baldguy

(36,649 posts)
8. You keep pushing the same anti-Dem anti-Clinton talking points
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 04:11 PM
Dec 2016

That the RW has been pushing for for decades. Convenient that the Russians were able to pick up on it just about the same time you did.

Ace Rothstein

(3,299 posts)
10. It isn't anti-Dem or anti-Clinton.
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 04:14 PM
Dec 2016

All I'm doing is telling you that you keep conflating two separate items.

Amishman

(5,812 posts)
9. No, he is right. The Clinton email server was never hacked. It's two issues
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 04:14 PM
Dec 2016

The right enjoyed trying to intertwine this issue to suggest that Hillary's server was not secure.

Hillary's private server was never hacked. Period.

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