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It wasn't hard. They just sent him a phishing email and he fell for it. Does the DNC hold any responsibility for lax data security for theirs?

Well that makes 2 of them.

D needs to vastly improve on points given up. At 23.5, #15 in the league, that's nothing to write home to Mom about. Of course, cutting down on the number of pick sixes our QB throws could help that too.

Yeah, I'm going to call BS on this. Eagles won SB with backup, Foles. Giants won SB XXV with backup, Hostetler Rams won SB with backup, Kurt Warner Fish won 11 of their el perfecto games with backup QB Earl Morrall (who also played in SB VI replacing injured Johny Unitas for a while. Also backup up Johny for a whole season and they went 13-1 and he was MVP) Bills won a playoff game with a backup QB Washington won SB with backup QB Doug Williams Vikings would have made SB with backup Randal Cunningham if their kicker could make a FG Raiders won SB with backup Jim Plunkett Brett Favre did pretty well coming in as backup when the Magic Man got injured Heck, we made the playoffs twice with backup QB Doug Flutie These teams pulled the antithesis of going with Nasty Nate as your backup 2 years in a row ... The Bills of all teams should understand the importance of backup QB with us getting to one SB with miraculous help from backup QB Frank Reich and losing SB XXV to backup QB Jeff Hostetler. "The most important position on the team is QB. The second most important is backup QB." - HOF Joe Gibbs (Ask Gil about Joe Gibbs)

I'm thinking the answer is Ds need to nominate someone good to run for prez. If they put up another schlub, expect the same results.

Thankfully he's not getting his teeth cleaned again.

In article in the Seattle Times on Saturday about Pete Buttigieg, he made a disturbing although I guess not too surprising comment. I was unable to find the article online so I can't provide a link. Here's a quoted from the story: I find this sad that he sees American as a society that judges people by what they look like. Of course there is racism in America, but to describe it this way is well, I guess, not too surprising. But then the next paragraph says: Talk out of both sides of your mouth much?

What failed the first time? 40 hour work week? Paid vacation? Paid holidays? Overtime pay? Employee funded health insurance? Retirement benefits and contribution to Social Security by employers? All of these and more are being rolled back by Big Tech and the "gig economy" was my point. Private contractors can work as much as they want. They don't need paid vacations or paid holidays or overtime pay either, right? You see this as progress or in any way better for a Joe Schmuck worker?

This says some odd things about her choice in men. What man lets his wife cook for Mothers Day especially when the kids she's raising aren't biologically hers? And then he goes on Tweeter and brags about it. Certainly wouldn't fly at my house . Also cool that she wears pearls while cooking like Beaver's mom did.

My favorite is Pooty Poot.

I don't know if he knows about Alfred or not. And really, you don't either. are you saying Honesty is the best policy on the campaign trail? Just curious, what honest person will you be voting for? It was a good line.

True. But did you see Mayor Pete's response when asked about it? https://www.politicususa.com/2019/05/10/trump-pete-buttigieg-insult.html Nice. Maybe Mayor Pete can take care of himself.

I had a similar experience with a friend of mine. She played me the quote from Trump and I'm thinking this is pretty much word for word what the Governor of Virginia said. She said he was pulling it out of his you-know-what. She didn't even know about the quote from the VA Gov. This is a very smart person but only reads one side of the story like Cuomo I guess. When I called her attention to it I was told I was backing up Trump. Sad.

Immigration has been a political football my entire voting life which spans 5 decades. It was even before that. If you think candidate X from the D (or R) lineup will fix it, good luck.

IT'S a shame we hired the prosecutor we did instead of one of these 700 other people.

As always, thanks for the thoughtful response Deranged. I did only mention Russia but really I think other countries were in involved in the social media part of this. Like China probably as well as some 400 lb guys in beds with laptops. These people were not so much trying to influence the outcome of the election as in sowing unrest and division in the USA. A house divided cannot stand. That's the plan and we're falling for it. We know they did this with stuff like organizing online competing protests on the same day or the Hillary Rape Ring run out of a Pizza Parlor. Caused a lot of division and unrest and people got hurt. WMD Agreed. That's why one other thing I'd like to see is for Congress to pass a law for a public service campaign with people like Bill Clinton, W, Obama, Carter say we got snookered last time. We gotta be smarter. Don't believe everything you read or hear. Simple, but might cause some people to think. You're not understating me correctly. My idea is for congress to pass a law that from 6 months before a presidential election until the day after it's decided, no social media posts, tweets, zings, Instagrams, Pinterest whatevers, etc. can be shown in the USA that originated outside the USA. You could still search the internet on what other countries think of our candidates or what disinformation they're pedaling to your heart's content. It just won't be pushed to you. That's not censorship. If a tech company violates, they pay a hefty fine. Offer a reward for hackers to find them and turn them in. Let's just talk it over amongst us Americans. Amen. That's what it's all about. And yes, we have our own large sophisticated cyber/information warfare apparatus. And they're good. Stuxnet was effective for example. That's the reason I think we are looking silly over this whole thing. We've done worse. Stop whining. Move on.

Freedom and information in America is what needs to be protected. And as I said, my plan is not to censor anything. If you want to find out what Russia thinks about the election and what disinformation they're pedaling by all means, look it up. Just don't let them push it to us just as we would not let them push a bomb in our direction. America First. As Ted Cruz would say, if all you got is people should be smarter, you ain't got nuthin'.

Did Russia participate in the Brexit or French or Ukraine elections? Did Russia not try to influence things here in 2016 at all? What was the IRA doing? Again, there were many bad actors. I'm just trying to plug one hole. I can't believe people are so adamant about protecting our Information Warfare enemy's 1st amendment rights. And don't hand me the censorship thing, we're already heavily censored. Besides I don't want to censor anyone. Look it up if you want. Just don't let them push it to us. And you don't need FaceBook ads when news outlets like CNN and the New York Times are using your disinformation as a source for their stories. How do we get all these people to be smarter again? They're getting dumber by the minute thanks to the greatest population control device ever invented (so far). As I said in my initial post, information warfare has been around forever. It has now risen to a much loftier/effective level than at any other point in human history by far. We might need to re think this IMHO.

It was both.

Prepare to lose. We're well on the way. You already do. the other side is heavily weaponizing information and using it against us, so we'll just sit back and hope people get smarter. Sounds like a plan.

Yes, but a lot of it did come from there in the form of tweet bots etc.. My friend is an avid social media person and she knew it was going on at the time. It was that obvious to those smart enough. The Mueller Report talks about it. Since we don't have Obama in the White House this time perhaps not nearly as much of the internal stuff will happen. https://www.sacbee.com/news/business/technology/article229433499.html Unless you don't believe the Mueller report?

If people want to find out what Russia thinks about our election during that 6 month period, they can google or if they're smart DuckduckGo it. Just don't let 'em push it to us, ,that's all. No one's being censored or deprived of information. Think of this way, Americans have the right to go anywhere and do anything, should we also allow foreign troops to do the same? This is INFORMATION WARFARE. I just don't think we can sit back and hope it doesn't work this time because people will be smarter.

Looks to me like letting it all don't work worth a darn. In 2016, Letting it in and getting people all freaked out and having our legit news organizations using it as sources helped our external Information Warfare enemies immensely. It's a new world, we may need to change our tactics.

You got a good point there. Got a better idea? People being smarter. Like I said, good luck with that. Serious question: What do you think are the odds of that happening? I do agree that this would be THE BEST way to fight it. Instead of the time and energy spent trying to get Trump which will do NOTHING to help the 2020 election, we should be ramping up a public relations campaign with commercials with Bill Clinton, W, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Kimmel, etc. telling people to be smarter this time. Like you say, it's our best chance. But no, impeach Trump! Blue vs Red.

Sure, it wouldn't stop them. Nothing is 100%, especially in this game. But it would cut out a lot of it. Sure there are things like IP spoofing and so forth etc, but they could also be detected and squashed. Information Warfare is a game of whack a mole no doubt. But we gotta do something. Just hoping people on social media will get smarter is a fools errand and recipe for tyranny, a race war, and blood in the streets IMHO. We saw it last time and are seeing it again already. We gotta fight back in the Information Warfare space to have any chance IMHO.