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Credit to r/eyeh8 on Reddit for what I think would be a pretty cool slogan. Republicans are Russian shills waving an American flag. That's not the same as being patriotic.
By the way, that comment is from a thread about how Mitch McConnell, who kept Obama from doing anything about Russian election interference in 2016, is now blocking all attempts to do something about Russian election interference in 2020.
Here's the thread, for those interested:
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Mueller/comments/bzba6l/mitch_mcconnell_who_threatened_retaliation_when/
And here's the article under discussion:
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/mcconnell-blocking-plans-to-prevent-russian-election-attack.html
There actually are a lot of bills to safeguard the 2020 elections from the next Russian attack. Mitch McConnell is blocking all of them.
The New York Times reported a few days ago that McConnell is refusing to bring to a vote any bill to safeguard the elections from foreign attack. Theres a Democratic bill to provide election funding to state and local governments. Theres a bipartisan Senate bill to codify cyberinformation-sharing initiatives between federal intelligence services and state election officials, speed up the granting of security clearances to state officials, and provide federal incentives for states to adopt paper ballots. McConnell wont allow any of them to come to a vote.
The threat from Russian election interference is actually quite severe. Russian intelligence breached at least one Florida county computer system and planted malware in a manufacturer of vote-tabulating machines, according to the Mueller report. While the probability that Russian hackers could actually change the outcome of the next election is low, the consequences would be extraordinarily high especially if they do so by actual vote-rigging rather than mere information warfare.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)as well as a few other Mags have done stories about how Corrupt Mitch and his Spouse are. Yes,he brought in millions of dirty money into his Parties coffer's. And recently he is rubbing it into the Dems face.