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In reply to the discussion: I'd like to give a round of applause to all the Jill Stein voters and JPR-atf*ckers out there [View all]R B Garr
(17,932 posts)"corporations" mantras. More people are online --- millions more -- than watch the cable news shows. That is why Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein were promoted so that they would undermine Hillary. That is how the Russians went about it, and it was comprehensive. The U.S. media alone did not construct this -- it was a foreign hit job. Let's stick with reality.
Pushing stale campaign talking points does nothing. Read the current news and the Mueller indictments.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/16/trump-mueller-russia-indictment-what-does-it-mean
"According to Fridays indictment of 13 Russians and three Russian companies, the strategic goal was to sow discord in America and dated back to 2014. Online propaganda efforts by a troll farm called the Internet Research Agency were primarily intended to communicate derogatory information about Hillary Clinton, to denigrate other candidates such as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, and to support Bernie Sanders and then-candidate Donald Trump."