{"id":35151,"date":"2018-12-26T12:11:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T20:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35151"},"modified":"2018-12-26T12:11:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T20:11:49","slug":"this-must-never-happen-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/26\/this-must-never-happen-again\/","title":{"rendered":"This Must Never Happen Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Senate will soon release a new report that shows how Russia hoodwinked progressives into helping Putin&#8217;s Puppet, Donald Trump, take the White House.&#160; The Russian trolls and intelligence operatives waged a massive propaganda campaign on social media to build left wing support for American traitor and pseudo-Green, Jill Stein.&#160; She was a willing participant in this effort by her friend, Vladimir Putin [R-RU].&#160; Progressives must never again allow their idealism to be used to help hand an election to the Republican Reich.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1226Stein1\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1226Stein1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1226Stein1.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to a report from NBC, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/russians-launched-pro-jill-stein-social-media-blitz-help-trump-n951166\" target=\"_blank\">Russian operatives gave a big boost to Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein<\/a> just before the 2016 election to draw away voters from Democrat Hillary Clinton and boost Donald Trump\u2019s chances of winning the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>NBC claims a report compiled by the Senate shows Stein was the subject of a social media blitz designed to raise her profile and create a better playing field for eventual winner Trump.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1226Stein2\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1226Stein2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1226Stein2.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"270\" \/>\u201cBuilding support for Stein was one of a \u2018roster of themes\u2019 the Moscow-sanctioned internet trolls \u2018turned to repeatedly\u2019 in their effort to disrupt the election, according to a research team led by the New Knowledge cybersecurity firm,\u201d the report states. \u201cThe researchers also found that the campaign to bolster Stein gained in intensity in the final days of the presidential campaign and largely targeted African-American voters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stein <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2018\/02\/watch-jill-stein-comes-unglued-asked-visit-russia-bonkers-msnbc-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">has repeatedly denied getting any help from the Russians<\/a> despite questions about her appearance in Russia at a conference where she was seated at a table with Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>According to NBC: \u201cAn analysis found that Russians working under the direction of the Internet Research Agency, the St. Petersburg-based firm run by a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, tweeted the phrase \u2018Jill Stein\u201d\u2019over 1,000 times around the time of the election.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2018\/12\/busted-russia-supported-jill-stein-social-media-blitz-help-propel-trump-oval-office\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#8217;s a video:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_velshi_disinformation_181217\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As for Stein herself, she was a living spokes-person for Russian propaganda over and over again on Putin&#8217;s propaganda network, RT.&#160; She knew what she was doing and who would benefit, making her a collaborator in an espionage attack against the US.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Note how the reporter talked about Stein&#8217;s upticks in key states.&#160; He is right.&#160; It&#8217;s very hard to tell exactly what effects this particular espionage campaign caused, but I can tell you this.&#160; If the Stein voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin had voted Democratic instead, Trump would not be in the White House.&#160; As much as many progressives dislike Hillary, we would be far better off complaining about her than suffering under Trump&#8217;s Republican Reich.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We progressives need to decide with our heads. Because many decided with their hearts, they voted with their sphincters.&#160; NEVER AGAIN!<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate will soon release a new report that shows how Russia hoodwinked progressives into helping Putin&#8217;s Puppet, Donald Trump, take the White House.&#160; The Russian trolls and intelligence operatives waged a massive propaganda campaign on social media to build left wing support for American traitor and pseudo-Green, Jill Stein.&#160; She was a willing participant <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/26\/this-must-never-happen-again\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}