Why Can't WE Stop Putin From INterfering In Our Elections?

[Me.]

All the analysts/pundits are hair on fire about the next election.

What the hell, is what I think every time I hear this. I want to know why we can't put a stop to any such effort.
WE have geniuses. AS smart and certainly smarter than those criminals.

[BlueTsunami2018]

1. Because about half the people want him to.

And more than half of the Senate does.

[Me.]

6. THat % Is Actally 30%

But it seems that 30 beats the other 70 and aside from all the fun remarks and I don't get why.

[ananda]

10. The one-percenters own the media, the courts, and the GOP.

That's why.

[Me.]

13. I'm Beginning To THink A Sense Of Helplessness Is Our Real Enemy

[SmallFry]

19. This statement is terribly important.

People wonder how it could happen? I’m just talking in general terms.

The fall doesn’t happen overnight. There is a long period beforehand where a larger and larger percent of a population become demoralized. With that comes a certain level of apathy.

[Me.]

22. Yes

I see that happening to degree right now

[dweller]

2. B/C

he’s still alive … same goes for pisswig


✌🏻

[2naSalit]

24. LOL!

Pisswig!

How refreshing, a new name for...

[dweller]

25. Anyone, anywhere

will know who it is … 😀



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[OAITW r.2.0]

3. Vote Republican

Vote acquisition of USA by Trump Org. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Putin World-Wide Domination, LLC.).

[malaise]

4. For the same reason many countries can't stop the US or

other governments from interferring with theirs. Spy versus Spy wasn't just a crazy idea from Maf Magazine

[Fiendish Thingy]

5. Well, we could, but it would require Congress to pass legislation

Regulating social media as publishers, rather than platforms. Make Facebook liable for the misinformation it publishes, and Russia’s influence in the next election would plummet.

Of course, that would require killing the filibuster, and ovtaining the votes of Manchin and Sinema, so…

[Me.]

7. THank You

I also wonder why we don't do a turn around and do to them what they are always trying to do with us.

[Hoyt]

8. Countries gonna interfere and meddle, including USA. We need to

get used to it.

[Me.]

11. Not If It Means A fg In The WH

crawl into a corner and snivel until someone rescues us from our own autocrat?

[Hoyt]

14. We should have thought of that long ago.

“Why does this history matter now? Because acknowledging it begs a question that few American pundits and politicians have answered yet: Is the problem with Russia’s behavior in 2016 that it violated principles of noninterference in other countries’ elections that America should respect as well? Or is the problem simply that America’s ox was gored?


https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/07/the-us-has-a-long-history-of-election-meddling/565538/

We need to get prepared for midterms and 2024.

[ripcord]

12. Many people don't know the number of times the US has interfered in elections

The interference in the 1948 Italian election was really blatant.

[Hoyt]

26. +1. Most don't care except when it impacts them directly.

[Doodley]

9. We can't even do anything about Trump who may still become our first dictator-in-chief.

[Bev54]

15. It is another Putin threat to get into the ballot machines

Keep them offline. I am concerned about Republicans getting access to the machines before, during or after the election, especially in certain states. Maybe the US should ask for foreign observers. I will come down from Canada and I think many volunteers from around the world would happily keep an eye on things.

[Me.]

23. Isn't THat Ironic...And Sad

US needing observers?

[Irish_Dem]

16. Because the GOP, MAGAs, Media and American oligarchs want Putin's help to steal elections.

[Iggo]

17. We could, if the other half of us would help us do the right thing.

As if.

[BootinUp]

18. You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale

(Billionaires and their computer programs.)

[Skittles]

20. because the GOP invites them to do it?

the GOP *COLLUDES* with Russia

[JHB]

21. Because Republicans think of it as "margin of victory", not as interference.

That's the only thing that's important to them.